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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fs/dcache.c - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 22s! [systemd-udevd:1667]
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:25:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140528202505.GC18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy6-bga8LumLKO8Yc_83vA=p-g8sqUE-aGP-uF3Xb6e4w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:02:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Anyway, one reason I looked at this is that most of the threads in
> Mika's NMI watchdog traces were stuck on _raw_spin_lock() in the whole
> d_walk() thing, and I had a *really* hard time convincing myself that
> this was all safe without the RCU lock. I'm wondering if Mika perhaps
> has CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU set, which means that spinlocks (or the
> rename_lock sequence lock) do not end up being RCU-safe points.

d_walk() covers its arse with ->d_lock (and it wants the starting point
to be pinned, obviously).  So AFAICS RCU is not a problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-28 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140526093741.GA1765@lahna.fi.intel.com>
2014-05-26 13:57 ` fs/dcache.c - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 22s! [systemd-udevd:1667] Al Viro
2014-05-26 14:29   ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-26 15:27     ` Al Viro
2014-05-26 16:42       ` Al Viro
2014-05-26 18:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-26 18:26         ` Al Viro
2014-05-26 20:24           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-27  1:40             ` Al Viro
2014-05-27  3:14               ` Al Viro
2014-05-27  4:00                 ` Al Viro
2014-05-27  7:04                   ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-28  3:19                     ` Al Viro
2014-05-28  7:37                       ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-28 11:57                         ` Al Viro
2014-05-28 13:11                           ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-28 14:19                             ` Al Viro
2014-05-28 18:39                               ` Al Viro
2014-05-28 19:43                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 20:02                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 20:25                                     ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-05-29 10:42                                     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-28 20:14                                   ` Al Viro
2014-05-28 21:11                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 21:28                                       ` Al Viro
2014-05-29  3:11                                 ` Al Viro
2014-05-29  3:52                                   ` Al Viro
2014-05-29  5:34                                     ` Al Viro
2014-05-29 10:51                                       ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-29 11:04                                         ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-29 13:30                                           ` Al Viro
2014-05-29 14:56                                             ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-29 15:10                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29 15:44                                               ` Al Viro
2014-05-29 16:23                                                 ` Al Viro
2014-05-29 16:29                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29 16:53                                                     ` Al Viro
2014-05-29 18:52                                                       ` Al Viro
2014-05-29 19:14                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  4:50                                                           ` Al Viro
2014-05-30  5:00                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  6:49                                                               ` Al Viro
2014-05-30  8:12                                                         ` Mika Westerberg
2014-05-30 15:21                                                           ` Al Viro
2014-05-30 15:31                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30 16:48                                                               ` [git pull] " Al Viro
2014-05-30 17:14                                                                 ` Al Viro
2014-05-31 14:18                                                                   ` Josh Boyer
2014-05-31 14:48                                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-31 14:58                                                                       ` Josh Boyer
2014-05-31 16:12                                                                       ` Josh Boyer
2014-05-30 17:15                                                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2014-05-29  4:21                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  5:16                                     ` Al Viro
2014-05-29  5:26                                       ` Al Viro

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