From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Darren Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ia64 Linux <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Horrible regression with -CURRENT from "Don't busy-lock-loop in preemptable spinlocks" patch
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:20:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050119092013.GA2045@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16878.9678.73202.771962@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
* Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> >> Here's a patch that adds the missing read_is_locked() and
> >> write_is_locked() macros for IA64. When combined with Ingo's
> >> patch, I can boot an SMP kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.
> >>
> >> However, I feel these macros are misnamed: read_is_locked() returns
> >> true if the lock is held for writing; write_is_locked() returns
> >> true if the lock is held for reading or writing.
>
> Ingo> well, 'read_is_locked()' means: "will a read_lock() succeed"
>
> Fail, surely?
yeah ... and with that i proved beyond doubt that the naming is indeed
unintuitive :-)
Ingo
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Darren Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ia64 Linux <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Horrible regression with -CURRENT from "Don't busy-lock-loop in preemptable spinlocks" patch
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:20:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050119092013.GA2045@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16878.9678.73202.771962@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
* Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> >> Here's a patch that adds the missing read_is_locked() and
> >> write_is_locked() macros for IA64. When combined with Ingo's
> >> patch, I can boot an SMP kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.
> >>
> >> However, I feel these macros are misnamed: read_is_locked() returns
> >> true if the lock is held for writing; write_is_locked() returns
> >> true if the lock is held for reading or writing.
>
> Ingo> well, 'read_is_locked()' means: "will a read_lock() succeed"
>
> Fail, surely?
yeah ... and with that i proved beyond doubt that the naming is indeed
unintuitive :-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-19 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-17 5:50 Horrible regression with -CURRENT from "Don't busy-lock-loop in preemptable spinlocks" patch Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-17 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-17 7:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-17 7:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-17 8:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-17 14:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-18 1:47 ` Darren Williams
2005-01-18 1:47 ` Darren Williams
2005-01-18 4:28 ` Darren Williams
2005-01-18 4:28 ` Darren Williams
2005-01-18 7:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-18 7:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-19 0:14 ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-19 0:14 ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-19 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-19 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-19 9:18 ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-19 9:18 ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-19 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-01-19 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-19 21:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-19 21:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-20 2:34 ` [PATCH RFC] 'spinlock/rwlock fixes' V3 [1/1] Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-20 2:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-20 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-20 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-20 3:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-20 3:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-20 3:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-20 3:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-20 8:59 ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-20 8:59 ` Peter Chubb
2005-01-20 13:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 13:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:08 ` [patch 1/3] spinlock fix #1, *_can_lock() primitives Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:11 ` [patch 2/3] spinlock fix #2: generalize [spin|rw]lock yielding Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:12 ` [patch 3/3] spinlock fix #3: type-checking spinlock primitives, x86 Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:14 ` [patch] stricter type-checking rwlock " Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:16 ` [patch] minor spinlock cleanups Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:31 ` [patch 1/3] spinlock fix #1, *_can_lock() primitives Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 17:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 17:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 18:22 ` [patch, BK-curr] nonintrusive spin-polling loop in kernel/spinlock.c Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 18:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 18:25 ` [patch, BK-curr] rename 'lock' to 'slock' in asm-i386/spinlock.h Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 18:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 23:45 ` [patch, BK-curr] nonintrusive spin-polling loop in kernel/spinlock.c Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 23:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:44 ` [patch 1/3] spinlock fix #1, *_can_lock() primitives Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:05 ` [PATCH RFC] 'spinlock/rwlock fixes' V3 [1/1] Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-20 17:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 17:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 16:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-20 5:49 ` Horrible regression with -CURRENT from "Don't busy-lock-loop in preemptable spinlocks" patch Grant Grundler
2005-01-20 5:49 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-17 7:38 ` [PATCH] __get_cpu_var should use __smp_processor_id() not smp_processor_id() Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-17 14:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-17 18:53 ` Chris Wedgwood
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