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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.8: preemption + SMP broken ?
Date: 22 Apr 2002 14:16:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1019499391.934.9.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020421185705.B155@toy.ucw.cz>

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 14:57, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Wel, if race is in migration code, you should fix migration, not add
> preempt_disable(), right? [Or is race preempt-onlly?]

I was not sure where the race was - I really did not see a preempt-only
race there, but I could not pinpoint the cause for an SMP race.  Since
it was only showing itself as a preempt-related race, I disabled
preemption.

Erich Focht later pointed out that interrupts should be disabled in
migration_init and we sent a patch off to Linus.  I will do some testing
and see if this fixes it (I suspect it may) and subsequently remove the
preempt code.

	Robert Love


      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-17 17:52 2.5.8: preemption + SMP broken ? Dipankar Sarma
2002-04-17 18:25 ` Robert Love
2002-04-17 19:04   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-04-21 18:57   ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-22 18:16     ` Robert Love [this message]

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