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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	akpm@linuxfoundation.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] net: ip4_datagram_connect: Use correct form of statistics update
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:35:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131016083545.GP10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131015174745.197380080@linux.com>

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> ip4_datagram_connect is called with BH processing enabled. Therefore
> we cannot use IP_INC_STATS_BH but must use IP_INC_STATS which disables
> BH handling before incrementing the counter.
> 
> The following trace is triggered without this patch:
> 
> [ 9293.806634] __this_cpu_add operation in preemptible [00000000] code: ntpd/2150

You lost the BUG there; that really needs to be there:

 - BUG makes people pay attention
 - This was an actual BUG wasn't it?

Sure there can be false positives, but in all cases people should amend
the code. Sometimes with a comment explaining why the raw primitive
should be used; sometimes to fix an actual bug, but a patch needs to be
written. Therefore BUG!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-16  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15 17:47 [PATCH 0/6] percpu: Implement Preemption checks for __this_cpu operations V4b Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] net: ip4_datagram_connect: Use correct form of statistics update Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 18:36   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-16  6:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-16  8:35   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-10-16  9:14     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-16  9:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-16 14:27         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16 14:37           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] percpu: Add raw_cpu_ops Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: Use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16  8:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16 14:22     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] Use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16  8:43   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] net: __this_cpu_inc in route.c Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16  8:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16  9:22     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-16 10:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16 15:07         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] percpu: Add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16  8:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16 15:09     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16 15:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16 15:55         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-16 16:25           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16 16:52             ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16 17:11               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-16 17:39                 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16 18:38             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-17 19:22               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-17 21:13                 ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found] <20131011175518.634285474@linux.com>
2013-10-11 17:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] net: ip4_datagram_connect: Use correct form of statistics update Christoph Lameter
2013-10-11 18:32   ` Eric Dumazet

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