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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: cl@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	tj@kernel.org, grygorii.strashko@ti.com, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: How do I increment a per-CPU variable without warning?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:29:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140415222951.GA742@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140415221755.GA27188@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 03:17:55PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
 
 > My current admittedly crude workaround is as follows:
 > 
 > 	static inline bool rcu_should_resched(void)
 > 	{
 > 		int t;
 > 
 > 	#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
 > 		preempt_disable();
 > 	#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT */
 > 		t = __this_cpu_read(rcu_cond_resched_count) + 1;
 > 		if (t < RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM) {
 > 			__this_cpu_write(rcu_cond_resched_count, t);
 > 	#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
 > 			preempt_enable();
 > 	#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT */
 > 			return false;
 > 		}
 > 	#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
 > 		preempt_enable();
 > 	#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT */
 > 		return true;
 > 	}

Won't using DEBUG_PREEMPT instead of just CONFIG_PREEMPT here make this
silently do the wrong thing if preemption is enabled, but debugging isn't ?

I'm not seeing why you need the ifdefs at all, unless the implied
barrier() is a problem ?

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-15 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-15 22:17 How do I increment a per-CPU variable without warning? Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-15 22:29 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2014-04-15 22:47   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-16  3:54     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-16  5:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 13:03         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-16 15:12         ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-16  5:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 15:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-16 16:06   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-16 17:12     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-16 18:29       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-16 18:47         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-17 17:36           ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-17 17:46             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-17 17:53               ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-17 18:21                 ` Paul E. McKenney

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