From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: Tony Luck <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>
Subject: Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:52:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009031652.56476.ptesarik@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009031635.25093.ptesarik@suse.cz>
On Friday 03 of September 2010 16:35:23 Petr Tesarik wrote:
> On Friday 03 of September 2010 11:04:37 Petr Tesarik wrote:
> > [...]
> > I'm now trying to modify the lock primitives:
> >
> > 1. replace the fetchadd4.acq with looping over cmpxchg
>
> I did this and I feel dumber than ever.
One more thing - the crash dump I got from that run shows that CPU 2 was just
going through zap_page_range(), so it probably also did a few global TLB
flushes. I'm not sure how this should matter, but any idea is good now, I
think.
Anyway, if a global TLB flush is necessary to trigger the bug, it would also
explain why we couldn't reproduce it in user-space.
OK, I know I'm just wildly guessing (and don't have any explanation for the
wrap-around mystery) ... but does anybody have a better idea?
Petr Tesarik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 14:52 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
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 [this message]
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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