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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: lkml@morethan.org
Cc: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:00:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A198B24.9040404@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905240727.30677.lkml@morethan.org>

Michael S. Zick wrote:
> 
> @hpa - I still like your suggestion that it is only one (or a few)
> uses of atomic ops that is incorrect and in general atomic ops
> should compile away on uni-processor.
> 

Actually, the more I think about it the more I suspect there is a race
condition either in the chip set or in any VIA-specific drivers (if
there are any.)  Putting LOCKs in random places will slow the CPU down
significantly, so it might resolve the race condition without actually
solving the problem.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22 16:39 [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 18:23 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-22 18:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-22 18:59   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-22 19:20     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 22:21     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 23:30       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-23  0:45         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-23  0:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-23 10:44             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-23 11:18               ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-24  7:04               ` Harald Welte
2009-05-24 12:48                 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-24 15:43                 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 22:13               ` Roland Dreier
2009-05-27 22:33                 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-23 15:52             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-23 18:04             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-23 23:44               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-24  6:49                 ` Harald Welte
2009-05-24 12:38                   ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-24 17:31                     ` Harald Welte
2009-05-27 12:18                   ` Re:[VIA Support] was: " Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 12:22                     ` [VIA " Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 12:47                     ` Harald Welte
2009-05-27 13:00                       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-29 12:06                     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-30 15:48                   ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-24 12:27                 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-24 17:22                   ` Harald Welte
2009-05-24 18:00                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-24 18:32                     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-24 18:46                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-24 19:09                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 19:03                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 19:18                           ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 19:46                             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 21:10                               ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 21:17                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-25 23:03                                   ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 23:35                                     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-26  0:05                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-26 12:37                                       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-26 17:13                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-25  1:31                       ` i2c-viapro / via-fb drivers on VIA CX700 Harald Welte
2009-05-25 12:54                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 13:36                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-25 16:05                       ` [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic Michael S. Zick
2009-05-28 20:30                     ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-28 20:54                       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-28 23:15                         ` [Futex RFC] was " Michael S. Zick
2009-05-29  2:00                           ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 17:01                 ` LOCK prefix on uni processor has its use (was Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic) Harald Welte
2009-05-27 17:10                   ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 17:19                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-27 17:25                     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 18:08                   ` LOCK prefix on uni processor has its use Andi Kleen
2009-05-27 18:22                     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 18:33                       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 18:55                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-27 18:38                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-02 12:48                     ` Harald Welte
2009-06-02 13:03                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-02 13:26                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-06-02 13:42                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-03 11:46                             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-28  2:56                   ` LOCK prefix on uni processor has its use (was Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic) H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-23 20:51             ` [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic Michael S. Zick
2009-05-28 12:48       ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-28 13:29         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-28 20:50           ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-28 20:58             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-28 21:16               ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-28 21:21                 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 19:17   ` Michael S. Zick
     [not found] ` <200905221343.30638.lkml@morethan.org>
     [not found]   ` <20090522192329.GF846@one.firstfloor.org>
2009-05-22 19:53     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 20:05       ` Samuel Thibault
2009-05-22 20:32         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 20:42           ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-22 20:57             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 20:43           ` Samuel Thibault
2009-05-22 21:59             ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-22 22:00               ` Samuel Thibault
2009-05-22 22:14                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-22 22:14                   ` Samuel Thibault
2009-05-22 20:45           ` Roland Dreier
2009-05-24 18:59           ` Robert Hancock
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-22 18:50 Michael S. Zick
2009-05-22 19:24 ` Roland Dreier
2009-05-22 20:03   ` Michael S. Zick

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