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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Wang, Xiaoming" <xiaoming.wang@intel.com>,
	"Li, Zhuangzhi" <zhuangzhi.li@intel.com>,
	"Liu, Chuansheng" <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove WARN_ON(in_nmi()) from vmalloc_fault
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:54:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131018115451.GM31306@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131016155730.7fd55ac5@gandalf.local.home>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:57:30PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:36:32 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Ah but we have an in_interrupt() check in context_tracking_user_enter() that protects
> > > us against that.
> > 
> > Here you are relying on the exception being treated as an interrupt,
> > correct?
> 
> I don't think so. It's relying on nmi_enter() also makes in_interrupt()
> return true.

Got it, never mind!

							Thanx, Paul

> Like I said before. An NMI interrupting userspace should be no
> different than an interrupt interrupting userspace. They both can
> trigger vmalloc faults, and we should be able to deal with it.
> 
> -- Steve
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-18 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15 20:39 [PATCH] x86: Remove WARN_ON(in_nmi()) from vmalloc_fault Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16  6:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-16 12:42   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16 12:51     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-16 13:01       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16 13:03       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-17  0:29       ` Liu, Chuansheng
2013-10-16 11:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-16 12:45   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16 13:08     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-16 13:14       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16 13:28         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-16 13:37           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-16 19:39             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-16 19:36       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-16 19:57         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-18 11:54           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-10-17 13:59         ` Frederic Weisbecker

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