From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/26] trace: Convert various locks to raw_spinlock
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:00:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100117130044.GE5035@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001131907560.5665@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:09:22PM +0100, John Kacur wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:36 +0100, John Kacur wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > Thanks for the review Steve and Frederic - I'll spin a new patch that
> > > doesn't convert tracing_start_lock.
> > >
> > > However, let's give it some good testing in preempt-rt, because we may
> > > have forgotten over time, why we converted these locks.
> >
> > Well, I think we just never unconverted them :-) I think we took the
> > paranoid approach and converted all locks in the trace directory to raw.
> > In fact, I think I even had a script to do it.
> >
> > -- Steve
>
> Okay, here is the new version of the patch.
> Frederic and Steve, can I have Acked-bys before I push to git?
>
> Thanks
>
> From ee03cc607493e58f34bf93afa2b8a23da5510927 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:09:48 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] trace: Convert reader_lock and max_trace_lock to raw_spinlocks
>
> Convert reader_lock and max_trace_lock to raw_spinlock.
> These locks cannot sleep in preempt-rt because they are called with
> interrupts disabled. This should have zero-impact on mainline.
>
> See also: 87654a70523a8c5baadcbbc07d80cbae8f912837
>
> Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 21:26 [PATCH 00/26] Convert locks that can't sleep in -rt to raw_spinlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 01/26] xtime_lock: Convert atomic_seqlock to raw_seqlock, fix up all users John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 02/26] seqlock: Create raw_seqlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 03/26] x86: Convert tlbstate_lock to raw_spinlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 04/26] sched: Convert thread_group_cputimer lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 05/26] x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlocks John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 06/26] x86: Convert i8259A_lock to raw_spinlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 07/26] x86: Convert pci_config_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 08/26] i8253: Convert i8253_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 09/26] x86: Convert set_atomicity_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 10/26] ACPI: Convert c3_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 11/26] rtmutex: Convert wait_lock and pi_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 12/26] printk: Convert lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 13/26] genirq: Convert locks to raw_spinlocks John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 14/26] trace: Convert various locks to raw_spinlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 15/26] clocksource: Convert watchdog_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 16/26] timer_stats: Convert to raw_spinlocks John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 17/26] x86: kvm: Convert i8254/i8259 locks to raw_spinlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 18/26] x86 - nmi: Convert nmi_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 19/26] cgroups: Convert cgroups release_list_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 20/26] proportions: Convert spinlocks to raw_spinlocks John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 21/26] percpu_counter: Convert to raw_spinlock John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 22/26] oprofile: " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 23/26] vgacon: Convert vga console lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 24/26] pci-access: Convert pci_lock " John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 25/26] kprobes: Convert to raw_spinlocks John Kacur
2010-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 26/26] softlockup: " John Kacur
2010-01-12 3:54 ` [PATCH 25/26] kprobes: " Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-11 21:50 ` [PATCH 19/26] cgroups: Convert cgroups release_list_lock to raw_spinlock Paul Menage
2010-01-11 22:11 ` John Kacur
2010-01-12 3:39 ` [PATCH 14/26] trace: Convert various locks " Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-13 15:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-13 15:36 ` John Kacur
2010-01-13 15:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-13 18:09 ` John Kacur
2010-01-17 13:00 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-01-12 3:24 ` [PATCH 00/26] Convert locks that can't sleep in -rt " Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-12 3:49 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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