From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mbligh@google.com
Subject: Re: Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 in 2.6.22-rc4-mm2
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:49:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070620014924.GA19080@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46788188.1040403@codemonkey.ws>
* Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> This is actually very conservative seeing as how disabling CR4.PGE
> should be sufficient to flush global pages on modern processors. I
> suspect you're getting preempted while it's running.
>
Sorry, I just realized that I rejected your preemption explanation
without explaining why:
1 - In my "Text Section" lock code, which is the original place where I
triggered the problem, I take a spinlock around these operations, which
disables preemption.
2 - My sample module plays alone in its own data structures: there is
only one thread accessing the data at a given time (because I do only
one file open at a given time, which I control).
Regards,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-20 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-19 17:09 Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 in 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-19 20:01 ` Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 (x86_64? too) " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-19 21:10 ` [PATCH] Workaround change_page_attr() and global_flush_tlb() df_list inconsistency on i386 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-20 9:01 ` Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 (x86_64? too) in 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 Andi Kleen
2007-06-20 16:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-20 17:53 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-20 18:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-20 19:39 ` [PATCH] fix x86_64-mm-cpa-cache-flush.patch " Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <20070625212553.ec2caba9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-29 4:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-20 1:23 ` Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 " Anthony Liguori
2007-06-20 1:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-20 1:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
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