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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] page-table walkers vs memory order
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:11:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343290299.26034.84.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1207251452160.2084@eggly.anvils>

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 15:09 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> We find out after it hits us, and someone studies the disassembly -
> if we're lucky enough to crash near the origin of the problem. 

This is a rather painful way.. see

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/5/555

we were lucky there in that the lack of ACCESS_ONCE() caused an infinite
loop so we knew exactly where we got stuck.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-23 17:34 [RFC] page-table walkers vs memory order Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-23 19:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-07-24 21:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-25 17:56   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-07-25 20:26     ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-25 21:12       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-07-25 22:09         ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-25 22:37           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-07-26  8:11           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-07-30 19:21         ` Jamie Lokier
2012-07-30 20:28           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-07-26 20:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27 19:22     ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-27 19:39       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-04 14:37   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-08-04 22:02     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-04 22:47       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-08-04 22:59         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2012-08-04 23:11           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-05  0:10             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2012-08-04 23:06         ` Paul E. McKenney

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