From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: cebbert@redhat.com, chris@atlee.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, kiran@scalex86.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:18:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070618091832.GA1860@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I0ChN-0006nd-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
* Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > > > This change causes the memory access of the "easy" spin-loop portion
> > > > to be more agressive: after the REP; NOP we'd not do the 'easy-loop'
> > > > with a simple CMPB, but we'd re-attempt the atomic op.
> > >
> > > It looks as if this is going to overflow of the lock counter, no?
> >
> > hm, what do you mean? There's no lock counter.
>
> I mean, the repeated calls to decb will pretty soon make lock->slock
> wrap around.
ugh, indeed, bad thinko on my part. I'll rework this.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-18 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-24 12:04 [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60 Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-24 12:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-24 14:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-24 14:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-24 14:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-24 14:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-24 14:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-24 17:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-24 21:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 9:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-14 16:04 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-15 21:25 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-16 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-17 21:46 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 6:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 7:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 8:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-19 4:22 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-06-18 8:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 8:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 9:18 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-06-18 9:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 10:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 13:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-18 17:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-18 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-18 18:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 18:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-18 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-20 9:36 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-06-20 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 16:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 16:44 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-21 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 18:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-06-21 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 20:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 21:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:42 ` [patch] spinlock debug: make looping nicer Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 21:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 7:00 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-06-21 20:36 ` [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60 Eric Dumazet
2007-06-21 19:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 20:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-26 8:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-26 10:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-06-26 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 5:23 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-27 6:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 6:20 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-27 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 20:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-27 20:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27 22:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 23:30 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-28 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-28 3:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-07-02 7:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-21 20:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-22 8:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-23 10:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-23 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-25 6:45 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-06-21 20:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 7:38 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-06-21 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-21 11:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-06-21 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-22 10:38 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-05-24 22:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-24 22:13 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-25 6:58 ` Ingo Molnar
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