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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: TeJun Huh <tejun@aratech.co.kr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?)
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:28:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823122813.0c90e241.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030823052633.GA4307@atj.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:26:34 +0900
TeJun Huh <tejun@aratech.co.kr> wrote:

>  Oops, Sorry.  Only bh handling is relevant.  Softirq and tasklet are
> not of concern to cli().
> 
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:09:31PM +0900, TeJun Huh wrote:
> >  Additional suspicious things.
> > 
> > 1. tasklet_kill() has similar race condition.  mb() required before
> > tasklet_unlock_wait().
> 
> Corrected 2.
> [...]
>  If bh hanlding is not guaranteed to be blocked during cli() - sti()
> critical section, global_bh_lock test inside wait_on_irq() is
> redundant and if it should be guaranteed, current implmentation seems
> broken.

If we follow your analysis and say it is broken, do you have a suggestion/patch
how to fix both? I am willing to try your proposals, as it seems I am one of
very few who really experience stability issues on SMP with the current
implementation.

Regards,
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-23 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-23  2:54 Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling TeJun Huh
2003-08-23  4:09 ` Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?) TeJun Huh
2003-08-23  5:26   ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 10:28     ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2003-08-23 15:13       ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 15:37         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-25  6:31           ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-25  7:23             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-26  0:27               ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 15:56         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-23 16:36           ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-24  3:27           ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 15:04 ` Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling Anton Blanchard
     [not found] <nKwX.1yy.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-25  8:06 ` Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?) Peter T. Breuer

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