From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008272241.15735.ptesarik@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53015D91D3B7@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Friday 27 of August 2010 22:29:41 Luck, Tony wrote:
> > If this is a memory ordering problem (and that seems quite plausible)
> > then a liberal sprinkling of "ia64_mf()" calls throughout the spinlock
> > routines would probably make it go away.
>
> I think I take this back ... if it were a memory ordering problem, then
> it could show up any time - not just at wrap-around.
Well, I wasn't originally sure if it only happens at wrap-around. OTOH I've
now modified my tests, so that they would also catch any other badness, and I
still only got another two failures after wrap-around.
>From looking at the traces, I'm afraid this smells like another Itanium
erratum. I'm now trying to write a minimal test case...
Petr Tesarik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-27 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-27 13:37 Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64 Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 13:48 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-08-27 14:09 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 14:31 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-08-27 14:40 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 14:52 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-08-27 16:37 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 16:08 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-27 17:16 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 18:20 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-08-27 19:40 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 20:29 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-27 20:41 ` Petr Tesarik [this message]
2010-08-27 21:03 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 21:11 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-27 22:13 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-27 23:26 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-27 23:55 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-28 0:28 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-08-28 5:01 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-30 18:17 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-30 21:41 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-08-30 22:43 ` Tony Luck
2010-08-31 22:17 ` Tony Luck
2010-09-01 23:09 ` Tony Luck
2010-09-02 0:26 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-09-03 0:06 ` Tony Luck
2010-09-03 9:04 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-09-03 14:35 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-09-03 14:52 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-09-03 15:50 ` Tony Luck
2010-09-06 14:47 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-09-07 13:17 ` Petr Tesarik
2010-09-07 17:35 ` Tony Luck
2010-09-08 15:55 ` Tony Luck
2010-09-10 2:55 ` Dave Jones
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