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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, stable@kernel.org,
	ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 003/152] jbd: fix commit of ordered data buffers
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:54:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609292154.30234.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060929191759.GA19304@elte.hu>

On Friday 29 September 2006 21:18, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > gad, there have been so many all-CPU-backtrace patches over the years.
> > 
> > <optimistically cc's Ingo>
> > 
> > Ingo, do you think that's something which we shuld have in the 
> > spinlock debugging code?  A trace to let us see which CPU is holding 
> > that lock, and where from?  I guess if the other cpu is stuck in 
> > spin_lock_irqsave() then we'll get stuck delivering the IPI, so it'd 
> > need to be async.
> 
> used to have this in -rt for i686 and x86_64 for the NMI watchdog tick 
> to print on all CPUs, in the next tick (i.e. no need to actually 
> initiate an IPI) - but it was all a bit hacky [but worked]. It fell 
> victim to some recent flux in that area.

You mean spinlock debugging setting a global variable and the NMI
watchdog testing that?  Makes sense. I can put it on my todo list.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200609260630.k8Q6UrvQ011999@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
     [not found] ` <451C4DDE.60307@us.ibm.com>
     [not found]   ` <20060929090253.GA17124@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
2006-09-29 16:11     ` [patch 003/152] jbd: fix commit of ordered data buffers Badari Pulavarty
2006-09-29 19:20       ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-29 19:18         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 19:54           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-29 20:20             ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-29 21:22               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 21:26               ` Ingo Molnar

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