From: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Hai Huang <hhuang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix up a spurious page fault whenever it happens
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:50:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C340DE.30806@meduna.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130619080656.GF16094@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 19.06.2013 10:06, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On 19.06.2013 07:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> There's the fast_tlb race that Peter fixed in commit 29eb77825cc7
>>> ("arch, mm: Remove tlb_fast_mode()"). I'm not seeing how it would
>>> cause infinite TLB faults, but it definitely causes potentially
>>> incoherent TLB contents. And afaik it only happens with
>>> CONFIG_PREEMPT, and on UP systems. Which sounds like it might match
>>> your setup...
> The easiest way to test for your system is to ensure tlb_fast_mode()
> return an unconditional 0.
Nope. Got the faults also with tlb_fast_mode() returning 0, this time
after ~10 hours. So there still has to be something...
Regards
--
Stano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 8:42 [PATCH - sort of] x86: Livelock in handle_pte_fault Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-22 0:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-22 7:32 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-22 12:33 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-22 15:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-05-22 17:41 ` [PATCH] mm: fix up a spurious page fault whenever it happens Rik van Riel
2013-05-22 18:04 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-22 18:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-22 18:21 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-22 18:35 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-22 18:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-22 18:43 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-23 8:07 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-23 12:19 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-23 13:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-23 15:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-23 15:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-23 17:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-23 17:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-23 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-24 8:29 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-24 10:28 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-24 13:06 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-24 13:55 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-24 14:23 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-06-16 21:34 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-06-18 19:13 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-06-19 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-19 7:36 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-06-19 8:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-20 17:50 ` Stanislav Meduna [this message]
2013-05-23 14:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-05-23 14:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-05-23 15:03 ` Stanislav Meduna
2013-05-22 18:47 ` Stanislav Meduna
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