From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:49:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331154955.54176e5e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270075071.7101.79.camel@pasglop>
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:37:51 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:57 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > The question still remains what the incremental cost is of doing
> > irqsave/irqrestore.
>
> The only other option is to have local_irq_enable() check a global
> (system_state ?) before enabling. Almost as gross ...
>
Add an irq-disable-depth counter to the task_struct, fix all the bugs
which that exposes..
But these things are all utterly gross. The bottom line is that
radix_tree_init() is manifestly unsuited to being called with local
interrupts disabled. 773e3eb7b81e5ba13b5155dfb3bb75b8ce37f8f9 was just
a wrong patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-03-31 20:40 ` start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early Andrew Morton
2010-03-31 20:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-31 20:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-31 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-31 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-31 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-31 22:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-01 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-01 14:27 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-01 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-02 14:46 ` David Howells
2010-04-02 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-07 19:09 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-04-08 15:55 ` Américo Wang
2010-04-08 15:55 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-31 21:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-03-31 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-31 21:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-03-31 21:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-31 21:54 ` Russell King
2010-03-31 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-31 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-31 22:30 ` Russell King
2010-03-31 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-31 22:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-04-01 1:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-31 22:26 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-01 6:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-01 3:33 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-01 6:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-01 11:06 ` David Howells
2010-04-01 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-01 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-01 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-01 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-01 6:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-31 22:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-01 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-31 21:05 ` Russell King
2010-03-31 21:05 ` Russell King
2010-03-31 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-31 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-31 22:58 ` David Howells
2010-04-01 9:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-01 10:50 ` David Howells
2010-04-01 11:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-03-31 22:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-31 22:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
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