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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	<marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, <linux-ia64@linuxia64.org>
Subject: Re: alpha bug in signal handling
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:15:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011205211550.28098@smtp.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15374.35262.151232.521493@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <15374.35262.151232.521493@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

>
>I think David (Mosberger, not Miller :) is right here, and in fact
>this is also wrong on PPC at the moment.  However, the worst case is
>that the reschedule or signal delivery will get delayed until the next
>interrupt on that cpu (max 1/HZ seconds).  Since it is a pretty narrow
>window for the race I think it would be hard to observe the effect of
>the bug.

Yup, I found that some time ago. I though I even fixed it while hacking
on the return from exception path. The fix has probably been lost along
with some of that experimental stuff I was doing at that time though,
I remember you saying the problem wasn't that big.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <jepu5xqnva.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
     [not found] ` <15372.13000.922405.379605@napali.hpl.hp.com>
     [not found]   ` <20011204171426.B7982@redhat.com>
     [not found]     ` <15373.33622.236872.92057@napali.hpl.hp.com>
2001-12-05  3:00       ` alpha bug in signal handling Richard Henderson
2001-12-05 11:23         ` David S. Miller
2001-12-05 16:58           ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-05 20:17             ` David S. Miller
2001-12-05 20:55           ` Paul Mackerras
2001-12-05 21:15             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2001-12-06  1:09             ` David S. Miller

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