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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: Improve detection of illegal synchronize_rcu() call from RCU read side
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:17:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120105021758.GS2448@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120105020601.GE1143@somewhere>

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:06:03AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:01:08PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:45:20AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:30:35PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:03:39PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > > Actually for the case of RCU, the wait_for_completion() called by synchronize_rcu()

[ . . . ]

> > > > > rcutiny seems to be fine with the cond_resched() call, but srcu needs
> > > > > a special treatment.
> > > > 
> > > > For the moment, I just applied rcu_lockdep_assert() everywhere -- zero
> > > > cost on non-lockdep kernels, and fully handles all of the RCU simple
> > > > self-deadlock cases.
> > > 
> > > So, for RCU I'm not sure this is useful given the might_sleep() things.
> > > But for srcu it is.
> > 
> > One nice thing about the lockdep approach is that it tracks where the
> > conflicting RCU read-side critical section started.  But I am planning
> > for these to be 3.4 material, so we do have some time to refine them.
> 
> Yeah sure. And in any case it's still good to keep might_sleep() early
> to spot other sources of illegal atomic sections (irqs disabled and co)

Agreed!

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-26 12:16 INFO: task rcuc/0:7 blocked for more than 120 seconds Sasha Levin
2011-12-26 16:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-12-26 16:37   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-26 19:56     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-04 19:03       ` [PATCH] rcu: Improve detection of illegal synchronize_rcu() call from RCU read side Frederic Weisbecker
2012-01-04 21:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-05  1:45           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-01-05  2:01             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-05  2:06               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-01-05  2:17                 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2011-12-27  9:13   ` INFO: task rcuc/0:7 blocked for more than 120 seconds Sasha Levin
2011-12-28  4:29     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-03 20:27       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-03 20:37         ` Greg KH
2012-01-03 21:38           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-03 21:50             ` Greg KH
2012-01-03 22:26               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-03 22:33                 ` Paul E. McKenney

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