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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix a possible deadlock scenario
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:28:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180719132834.GF18667@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpVX_9C42Wh+ydti=droRz_Xs_Cv4ovVcg4nqu+n1OScKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:

SNIP

> > hum, the swevent pmu does not triger NMI, so that timer
> > will never be touched in NMI context
> 
> Good to know! So I worry too much here.
> 
> But still, given hrtimer interrupt is called with IRQ disabled, getting
> stuck in a hrtimer callback could also block IPI handler, therefore
> causing soft lockups.
> 
> Let me know if you want me to adjust the changelog for this.

yep, it's confusing, I think it should be removed from changelog

jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-19 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-16 21:51 [PATCH] perf/core: fix a possible deadlock scenario Cong Wang
2018-07-18  8:19 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-07-18 20:21   ` Cong Wang
2018-07-19 13:28     ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2018-07-19 19:12       ` [PATCH v2] " Cong Wang
2018-07-20 11:52         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-23 23:16           ` Cong Wang
2018-07-24  1:35             ` Cong Wang
2018-07-24  1:44               ` Cong Wang
2018-07-24  9:18                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-25 18:44                   ` Cong Wang
2018-07-24  9:12             ` Peter Zijlstra

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