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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: emin ak <eminak71@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rt10 crash on ppc
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:13:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060330071322.GA3137@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442B4890.6000905@yahoo.com.au>


* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Yes, that patch is basically what I had in mind.
> 
> Is -rt ever allocating memory from really-hard-don't-preempt-me 
> context? I guess not, unless the zone->lock is one of those locks too, 
> right?

no. zone->lock (and all the slab locks, and all the other MM locks) are 
fully preemptible too.

> Should you add a
> 
>  #else
>     BUG_ON(_really_dont_preempt_me());
>  #endif
> 
> just for safety, or will such misusage get caught elsewhere (eg. when 
> attempting to take zone->lock).

it should be caught immediately, by the cond_resched().

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-30  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-27 14:56 2.6.16-rt10 crash on ppc emin ak
2006-03-27 17:11 ` emin ak
2006-03-27 20:31 ` emin ak
2006-03-28  1:21   ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-29 15:08     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30  2:55       ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30  7:13         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-03-30  7:18           ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-30  7:23             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30 10:25               ` emin ak
2006-03-30 11:34                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30 14:55                   ` emin ak

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