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From: Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@hosowicz.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: icedove-bin/5449
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:57:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFB9F0A.9040803@example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100525094347.GA7881@elte.hu>

On 25.05.2010 11:43, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> This doesnt fix the whole issue. cpu_clock() is local, while the measurements
> done in the blk code are global ...
>
> While the warning is fixed this way, the far more serious issue is still
> there: time can go backwards if two points of time measurement are on
> different CPUs and can mess up the statistics with negative values, etc...

How serious is this? Can it damage my data? I ask because the machine is 
my private computer, not any test machine.

Regards,

Piotr Hosowicz

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-25  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-24  3:03 BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: icedove-bin/5449 Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-24 17:22 ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25  8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25  9:42   ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25  9:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25  9:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-25  9:47     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25  9:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25  9:57     ` Piotr Hosowicz [this message]
2010-05-25 10:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25 10:05         ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 10:29           ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 14:13             ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 14:34               ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 14:36                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25 14:48                   ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 16:15                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-25 16:47                       ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-26  2:06                         ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-26  2:51                           ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 18:07   ` Divyesh Shah
2010-05-25 18:15     ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-25 21:35     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-26 23:02   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-27  6:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-27  6:51       ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]         ` <1274945751.27810.3765.camel@twins>
     [not found]           ` <20100527113340.d4afb8fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-28 13:13             ` [PATCH] sched_clock: Provide local_clock() and improve documentation Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-28 13:42               ` Johannes Stezenbach
2010-05-28 15:08                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-28 14:15               ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-28 14:22                 ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-05-28 18:11               ` Chad Talbott
2010-05-28 18:22                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-09 10:13               ` [tip:sched/core] sched_clock: Add local_clock() API " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-01  6:41   ` BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: icedove-bin/5449 Ingo Molnar
2010-06-01  6:47     ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-01  6:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-01  7:53         ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-12  1:54           ` Divyesh Shah
2010-06-12  9:42             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-02 11:16         ` blkiocg_update_io_add_stats(): INFO: trying to register non-static key Ingo Molnar
2010-06-02 13:04           ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-11  1:33             ` Divyesh Shah
2010-06-11  7:15             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-11  8:34               ` Jens Axboe

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