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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing locked mutex
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:17:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243595850.23657.213.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18975.50009.814331.113052@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 21:13 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Ingo Molnar writes:
> 
> > looping in the remove-context retry loop.
> 
> Ah! We need to reload task inside the loop.  And possibly in other
> places.

Thing is, after your patch this is called after the unclone, so the
context should be stable, still we see this. But yeah that loop needs
some care.

I also noticed we have races on cpuctx->task_ctx, I was looking at
removing it alltogether in favour of current->perf_counter_ctxp.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-29 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-29  6:06 [PATCH RFC] perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing locked mutex Paul Mackerras
2009-05-29  8:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-29  8:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-29  8:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-29  8:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-29  8:59       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-29  9:16         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-29 11:13           ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-29 11:17             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-05-29 11:23             ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-29 12:35           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-29 13:49             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-29  8:25   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-29 12:03 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " tip-bot for Paul Mackerras

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