From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v5)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:07:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480856BD.3080903@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080418000634.GB5062@Krystal>
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Andi Kleen (andi@firstfloor.org) wrote:
>> Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> writes:
>>> It allows placing immediate values (and therefore optimized trace_marks) in NMI
>>> code
>> Only if all your trace_mark infrastructure is lock less.
>>
>> -Andi
>>
>
> It uses RCU-style updates and has been designed to be lockless from the
> ground up.
Wrong. If it causes vmalloc faults it is not lockless.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-18 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080417165839.GA25198@Krystal>
[not found] ` <20080417165944.GB25198@Krystal>
2008-04-17 20:14 ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v5) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-17 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 21:16 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-17 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-18 0:06 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18 8:07 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-19 21:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18 11:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-19 21:23 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 14:00 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 14:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 14:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 15:21 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 17:23 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 17:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-22 13:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:11 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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