From: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: call_rcu from trace_preempt
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:13:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5580591E.50008@monom.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150616160716.GM3913@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 06/16/2015 06:07 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:43:42AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:16:26 -0700
>> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Just for the record: Using a thread for freeing the memory is curing the
>>>> problem without the need to modify rcu_is_watching.
>>>
>>> I must confess to liking this approach better than guaranteeing full-up
>>> reentrancy in call_rcu() and kfree_rcu(). ;-)
>>
>> Then reentrancy must be really bad if you prefer a spinning thread that
>> polls constantly just to free an item ;-)
>
> I was (perhaps naively) assuming that they would use a less aggressive
> approach at some point. ;-)
Yes, this was just playing around :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 22:24 call_rcu from trace_preempt Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-15 23:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 1:09 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16 2:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 5:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16 6:06 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-16 6:25 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16 6:34 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-16 6:46 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16 6:54 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-16 12:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 12:38 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-16 14:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 15:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-16 16:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 17:13 ` Daniel Wagner [this message]
2015-06-16 15:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-16 15:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-16 17:11 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-16 17:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16 17:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-17 0:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-17 0:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-17 1:04 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-17 1:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-17 8:11 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-17 9:05 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-17 18:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-17 20:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-17 20:53 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-17 21:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-17 23:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-18 0:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 15:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-16 16:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 17:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16 17:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 18:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-16 19:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-16 19:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-16 19:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
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