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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CRYPTO]: Only reschedule if !in_atomic()
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:58:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116892690.30513.13.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050523162806.0e70ae4f.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This code can cause deadlocks on CONFIG_SMP && !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels.
> 
> Please see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/10/358
> 
> You (the programmer) *have* to know what context you're running in before
> doing a voluntary yield.  There is simply no way to work this out at
> runtime.

Hrm... Linus just merged it though...

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-24  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200505232300.j4NN07lE012726@hera.kernel.org>
2005-05-23 23:28 ` [CRYPTO]: Only reschedule if !in_atomic() Andrew Morton
2005-05-23 23:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-05-24  0:24     ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-24  2:21   ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-24  2:31     ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-24  2:43       ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-24  3:20         ` James Morris
2005-05-24  3:50           ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-24 13:32       ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found]     ` <20050523.193612.08320356.davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-24  3:47       ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-24  6:40 ` Arjan van de Ven

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