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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Stack traces in 2.6.9-rc2-mm4
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:23:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4157CDFD.5030001@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040927184123.019b48b8@tornado.reub.net>

Reuben Farrelly wrote:
> Since upgrading from -mm3 to -mm4, I'm now getting messages like this 
> logged every second or so:
> 
> Sep 27 18:28:06 tornado kernel: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible 
> 

snip

> 
> Is there a fix to shut this all up or a suggested patch to revert?
> 
> Box is a P4 Intel 2.8Ghz single processor, SMP/HT with PREEMPT on..
> 

Looks like disk_stat_add in the sw-raid code. The proper fix is probably
to disable preempt around those regions - but just doing it the dumb
way (ie. in the driver code) looks like an unfortunate layering violation.

Maybe something like disk_stat_update_start / disk_stat_update_end that
gives you the per-cpu stat pointer as a "token" to be used by
disk_stat_inc/add/etc. Anyone?

Named slightly differently, so you keep backward compatibility, of course.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-27  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27  8:01 Stack traces in 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 Reuben Farrelly
2004-09-27  8:23 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-27  8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-27  9:14   ` Reuben Farrelly
2004-09-27 23:12   ` J.A. Magallon
2004-09-28  7:21     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-28  7:49       ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28 10:24         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-28 10:48           ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-30 21:58       ` J.A. Magallon
2004-09-30 22:56         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-30 23:16           ` J.A. Magallon

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