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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Make lockstats counting per cpu
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:39:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100326173911.GE5188@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269586358.12097.117.camel@laptop>

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:52:38AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 03:22 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > We can't use irqsafe per cpu counters for that as
> > these stats might be also written from NMI path, and irqsafe per
> > cpu counters are not NMI safe, but local_t operations are.
> > 
> lockdep shouldn't do NMI, nmi_enter() has an explicit lockdep_off().
> 


Ah ok, thanks.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-26  2:22 [PATCH] lockdep: Make lockstats counting per cpu Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-26  3:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-26  3:13   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-26  9:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-26 17:11     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-26  6:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-26  7:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-26 17:43     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-26 17:39   ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-28  0:29 [PATCH v3] " Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-05 22:10 ` [PATCH] " Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-06  8:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-06  9:24     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-06  9:25     ` Frederic Weisbecker

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