From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org, Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [raw v1 0/4] Replace __this_cpu ops with raw_cpu_ops where necessary
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 12:29:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008102918.GB22639@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000014194309038-3923fc42-2039-45da-b8fa-2df545112405-000000@email.amazonses.com>
* Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> The kernel can detect __this_cpu ops in preemptible contexts after the
> preemption check patchset that I posted last week.
>
> Here is a selection of patches to fix false positives caused by the
> additional checks. So far I have found no bug. Amazing. Looks like there
> was some prior work done to shake these things out?
You can probably thank -rt/PREEMPT_RT for such efforts - I think Thomas in
particular has hit a couple of genuine bugs with __this_cpu APIs the hard
way and then fixed them.
This series, once finished, will allow us to detect such problems cheaper
and earlier.
Thanks,
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-07 18:31 [raw v1 0/4] Replace __this_cpu ops with raw_cpu_ops where necessary Christoph Lameter
2013-10-08 7:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 10:29 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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