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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.40
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:39:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110516073928.GA23252@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110516070849.GA20580@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > And the way you can prove that it is my code rather than the arch
> > code is to show that the warning happens on your system when the
> > irq_enter()/irq_exit() calls are perfectly nested.
> 
> So I took another look at the RCU debugfs stats you provided earlier,
> and realized that your system gets a lot more NMIs than do the ones
> that I have access to.  So as a diagnostic patch, I ifdefed out the
> body of rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_nmi_exit().

Well, but the delays are occuring all the time (and it's bisectable) and NMIs 
are generally not deterministic.

I'd really suggest the creation of a revert + finegrained series on top of 
core/rcu which would IMHO help us narrow this down a lot more directly than 
jumping between the 'need_resched bug', 'nmi bug' and 'barrier bug' hypoteses.

( Btw., the bug still has the feeling of a need_resched/scheduling/timing 
  artifact to me, not barriers or NMI. )

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-16  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-08 15:18 [GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.40 Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-09  7:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-09 21:09   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-10  8:56     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-10  9:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-10 18:04       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-10 19:32         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-10 20:52           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11  4:54             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-11  6:03               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11  6:42               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11 20:13                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-11 16:54               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11 16:56               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11 20:18                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-11 20:59                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11 21:30                     ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-11 23:02                       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-12  6:03                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-12  7:27                           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-12  7:42                             ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-12  9:20                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-12 17:31                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-12 21:36                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-13  1:28                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-13  8:42                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 12:19                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 13:04                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 13:12                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 14:14                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-13 15:07                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 16:26                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16  7:08                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-16  7:48                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16 11:51                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-16 12:23                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-16 14:30                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-16 21:33                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16 22:07                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16 21:24                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16 23:52                                                             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-17  2:40                                                             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-17  7:53                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-17 12:43                                                                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-17 22:21                                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-18 21:10                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-18 23:13                                                                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-19  4:33                                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-19 14:47                                                                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-19 19:51                                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-19 21:15                                                                         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-19 21:45                                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20  0:09                                                                             ` [PATCH] rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftests Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-20  8:36                                                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-20 15:12                                                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-20 15:11                                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-20  0:14                                                                             ` [GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.40 Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-13 14:40                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 16:38                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16  7:10                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 21:08                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-14 14:26                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-14 15:31                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-14 18:34                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-15  3:59                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-15  4:14                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-15  5:41                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-15  5:49                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-15  6:04                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-15  6:59                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16  7:08                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16  7:39                                                       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-15  6:01                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-15 22:01                                           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-05-16  5:56                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-16 22:40                                               ` Frederic Weisbecker

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