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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v3.3
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:59:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120125115906.GG3687@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120125013604.GI2381@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:36:04PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:51:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Well, that depends.  Anything you're actually accomplishing when you're
> > optimising at that level is at the less than a milliwatt level.

> OK, good point.

> In the meantime, here are some alleged fixes for the corresponding bug in
> the ARM tree.  Some of these are "interesting" in the sense that RCU can
> be used more deeply in the idle loop than I would believe to be safe,
> for example, via locking->lockdep->RCU after some interesting pieces
> of hardware have been shut off.  I took my best guess and commented the
> ones that I am least sure of.

> Thoughts?  Other than I need to CC a cast of thousands?  (I cannot break
> this up without having git bisect points with busted RCU on ARM.)

Not really - I don't know ARM CPU side stuff in any detail, I mostly
work on things external to the SoCs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-05 13:54 [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v3.3 Ingo Molnar
2012-01-24 16:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-24 16:53   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-24 17:04     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-01-24 19:09       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-24 17:13     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-24 19:41       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-24 19:57         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-24 21:11           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-24 22:07             ` Mark Brown
2012-01-24 22:43               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-24 23:51                 ` Mark Brown
2012-01-25  1:36                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-25 11:59                     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-01-24 23:29             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-01-24 23:46               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-24 23:54                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-07 11:44               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2012-03-07 14:09                 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-07 15:27                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-07 15:49                     ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-08 21:26                       ` Paul E. McKenney

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