Re: [patch] sched: unlocked context-switches

[David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>]

 > Tony:

 >> Ingo:

 >> tested on x86, and all other arches should work as well, but if an
 >> architecture has irqs-off assumptions in its switch_to() logic it
 >> might break. (I havent found any but there may such assumptions.)

 > The ia64_switch_to() code includes a section that can change a
 > pinned MMU mapping (when the stack for the new process is in a
 > different granule from the stack for the old process).  The code
 > beyond the ".map" label in arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S includes the
 > comment:

Also, there was a nasty dead-lock that could trigger if the
context-switch was interrupted by a TLB flush IPI.  I don't remember
the details offhand, but I'm pretty sure it had to do with
switch_mm(), so I suspect it may not be enough to disable irqs just
for ia64_switch_to().  Tread with care!

	--david