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From: Austin Schuh <austin@peloton-tech.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RT] xfs: Disable preemption when grabbing all icsb counter locks
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:40:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANGgnMZSiNXRxESzdCCU9F-aAc_sa0nfBFqSdX3t4W8ThpwVhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150430143226.061202df@gandalf.local.home>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:07:21 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>> The irony, this is distinctly non deterministic code you're putting
>> under a RT specific preempt_disable ;-)
>
> I know :-(
>
> Unfortunately, a RT behaving fix would be much more invasive and would
> probably require the help of the xfs folks. For now, this just prevents
> a live lock that can happen and halt the system, where it becomes
> deterministic catastrophe.
>
> -- Steve

Would it work to instead create a lock to replace the
preempt_enable_rt/preempt_disable_rt pair in XFS?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-30 16:33 [PATCH][RT] xfs: Disable preemption when grabbing all icsb counter locks Steven Rostedt
2015-04-30 18:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-30 18:32   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-30 18:40     ` Austin Schuh [this message]
2015-04-30 19:07       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-30 18:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-30 18:36   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-05-04  0:48 ` Dave Chinner
2015-05-04 14:14   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-05-13 15:36   ` [PATCH][RT] xfs: Disable percpu SB on PREEMPT_RT_FULL Steven Rostedt
2015-05-14 16:32     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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