From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762346AbXGNSgP (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:36:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759376AbXGNSgA (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:36:00 -0400 Received: from tomts36.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.93]:63398 "EHLO tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759466AbXGNSf7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:35:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:35:57 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Oleg Nesterov , Steven Rostedt , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt 4/5] use migrate_disable for __local_begin Message-ID: <20070714183557.GG6975@Krystal> References: <20070714175733.194012000@chello.nl> <20070714175840.153584000@chello.nl> <20070714171644.GC6975@Krystal> <1184434342.5284.49.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1184434342.5284.49.camel@lappy> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 14:34:36 up 7 days, 8:39, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.18, 0.17 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 13:16 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > * Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra > > > --- > > > include/asm-i386/local.h | 7 ++++--- > > > include/asm-x86_64/local.h | 7 ++++--- > > > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > > > > > Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-i386/local.h > > > =================================================================== > > > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-i386/local.h > > > +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-i386/local.h > > > @@ -197,11 +197,12 @@ static __inline__ long local_sub_return( > > > #define __local_begin(__flags) \ > > > { \ > > > (__flags) = 0; \ > > > - preempt_disable(); \ > > > + migrate_disable(); \ > > > > Brrrr. That's wrong. Your non atomic __local*() updates only makes sense > > when preempt_disable/enable() protects them from concurrent threads on > > the same CPU, which is not the case of migrate_disable/enable(). This is > > why I suggest that you use local_begin/end() mapped to > > migrate_disable/enable() for normal local variables, and, if you really > > want a __local_begin/end(), then it should be mapped to > > preempt_disable/enable() and should state that it provides no protection > > against interrupts. > > Sure, but on -rt it does suffice, this part of the patch is rather WIP. > > Hrm, how can it suffice, I wonder ? migrate_disable() does not protect against other threads on the same CPU, so you could suffer from concurrent updates to the same variables. How is it different in -rt ? -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68