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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Commit 81a43adae3b9 (locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics) causing failures on arm64 (ThunderX)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:59:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151211095946.GC18828@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5669D5F2.5050004@caviumnetworks.com>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:43:46AM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> We are getting soft lockup OOPs on Cavium CN88XX (A.K.A. ThunderX), which is
> an arm64 implementation.

[...]

> At this point it is unknown if this patch is incorrect, or if the underlying
> ARM64 atomic_*_{acquire,release} primitives are defective, or if the problem
> lies elsewhere.

Are you using the ll/sc or lse versions of the atomics? In the case of
the former, are they inline or out-of-line (this depends on whether or
not you've selected CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS and whether or not you have
toolchain support)?

Will

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-11  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10 19:43 Commit 81a43adae3b9 (locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics) causing failures on arm64 (ThunderX) David Daney
     [not found] ` <SN1PR07MB21577C72379C8440A208D6BC9EEA0@SN1PR07MB2157.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
2015-12-11  3:29   ` FW: " Andrew Pinski
2015-12-11  4:51     ` Andrew Pinski
2015-12-11  8:41       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-11 12:04         ` Will Deacon
2015-12-11 12:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-11 12:18             ` Will Deacon
2015-12-11 12:26               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-11 13:33                 ` Will Deacon
2015-12-11 13:48                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-11 14:06                     ` Will Deacon
2015-12-11 17:11                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-11 17:24                         ` Will Deacon
2015-12-11 22:35                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-14 20:28                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-15  4:36                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-11 14:17           ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-12-17 21:52           ` Jeremy Linton
2015-12-11  7:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-11  9:59 ` Will Deacon [this message]

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