From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Will Schmidt <willschm@us.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] preempt_count corruption across H_CEDE call with CONFIG_PREEMPT on pseries
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:44:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C596EDB.30004@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279837509.1970.24.camel@pasglop>
On 07/22/2010 03:25 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:24 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>> 1) How can the preempt_count() get mangled across the H_CEDE hcall?
>> 2) Should we call preempt_enable() in cpu_idle() prior to cpu_die() ?
>
> The preempt count is on the thread info at the bottom of the stack.
>
> Can you check the stack pointers ?
Hi Ben, sorry if I didn't get back to you on this already. I checked the
stack pointer before and after the cede call and they match.
--
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-04 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 18:24 [PATCH][RFC] preempt_count corruption across H_CEDE call with CONFIG_PREEMPT on pseries Darren Hart
2010-07-22 18:36 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-22 18:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-10 22:36 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-22 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-22 23:57 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-23 4:44 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-23 5:08 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-07-23 5:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-23 7:07 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-08-05 4:45 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-05 11:06 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-08-05 12:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-07-23 5:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-06 2:19 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-06 5:09 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-08-06 7:13 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-23 14:39 ` Will Schmidt
2010-08-04 13:44 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2010-08-19 15:58 ` Ankita Garg
2010-08-19 18:58 ` Will Schmidt
2010-08-23 22:20 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-31 7:12 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-01 5:54 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-09-01 15:10 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-01 18:47 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-01 19:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-01 20:42 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-02 1:02 ` Michael Neuling
2010-09-02 4:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-02 6:04 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-03 20:10 ` Will Schmidt
2010-09-02 23:04 ` Michael Neuling
2010-09-03 0:08 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-02 3:46 ` Michael Neuling
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