From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] preempt: Debug for possible missed preemption checks
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:12:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140116211214.581197e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140116235751.084728c8@gandalf.local.home>
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:57:51 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> When PROVE_LOCKING and PREEMPT is configured, the preempt state
> tracking is active. Testing this out, I added a module that did the
> following:
So I assume your kernel at least has no instances of this bug, so we
don't need the patch ;) It *is* a fairly daft thing to do.
Maybe stick it in -next for a few months, see if anyone hits it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-17 4:57 [RFC][PATCH] preempt: Debug for possible missed preemption checks Steven Rostedt
2014-01-17 5:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-01-17 9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-18 23:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-19 0:52 ` Stephen Rothwell
2014-01-19 1:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-21 23:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2014-01-22 19:47 ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-22 20:09 ` Steven Rostedt
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