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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix pgd_lock deadlock
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:58:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297850294.2413.30.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110215231733.GR5935@random.random>

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 00:17 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:03:30AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I assume you run it with a lockdep enabled kernel as well, right ?
> 
> Yes, I always run with lockdep and prove locking enabled on my test
> box, not sure how it's meant to trigger more bugs in this case, the
> debug check that should be relevant for this is DEBUG_VM and that is
> enabled too of course. I didn't try DEBUG_PAGEALLOC yet.

I think what Thomas tried to tell you is that your
VM_BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) is fully redundant if you have lockdep
enabled.

Lockdep will warn you if a !irqsave lock is taken from IRQ context,
since that is a clear inversion problem.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14 20:56 [PATCH] x86: hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-15 17:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-19 22:17   ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, mm: Hold " tip-bot for Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-20 10:36     ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-20 19:31       ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all() tip-bot for tip-bot for Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-20 19:50         ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-20 19:53           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-20 20:10             ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-20 20:13               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-20 22:11                 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-20 21:26             ` Ben Pfaff
2010-10-20 19:58       ` tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2010-10-21 21:06 ` [PATCH] x86: hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-21 21:26   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-21 21:34     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-02-03  2:48   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-03 20:44     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-02-04  1:21       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-04 21:27         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-02-07 23:20           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 19:07             ` [PATCH] fix pgd_lock deadlock Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 19:26               ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-15 19:54                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 20:05                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-15 20:26                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-15 22:52                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 23:03                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-15 23:17                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-16  9:58                             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-02-16 10:15                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-16 10:28                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-16 14:49                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-16 16:26                                     ` Rik van Riel
2011-02-16 20:15                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-23  9:07                                     ` [2.6.32.y][PATCH] " Philipp Hahn
2012-04-23 19:09                                       ` Willy Tarreau
2011-02-16 18:33                     ` [PATCH] " Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-16 21:34                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-02-17 10:19                       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-02-21 14:30                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-21 14:53                           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-02-22  7:48                             ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-22 13:49                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 14:22                                 ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-22 14:34                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 17:08                                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-02-22 17:13                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-24  4:22                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-24  8:23                                     ` Jan Beulich
2011-02-24 14:11                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-21 17:40                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-02-03 20:59     ` [PATCH] x86: hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync Larry Woodman

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