From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [block IO crash] Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 19:12:20 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1105041908220.3005@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504165021.GA1404@elte.hu>
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > My gut reaction would be: let's do the minimal patch that just fixes things
> > to do irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_double() for 2.6.39, and then let's remove the
> > #ifdef'fery in -rc1. [...]
>
> Looks like the sanest option IMHO, -rc7 is pretty late for anything than a
> few-liner patch.
Agreed.
> > [...] Or make _really_ sure that things are ok for platforms that never even
> > triggered the CMPXCHG_LOCAL case before.
>
> Considering that the status quo was !CMPXCHG_LOCAL in v2.6.38 and that lockless
> SLUB is an x86-only affair right now:
>
> $ git grep CMPXCHG_LOCAL arch/
> arch/um/Kconfig.x86:config CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu:config CMPXCHG_LOCAL
>
> There should be no problem with other architectures, right?
No, they use the local_irq disabled path which is pretty much the same
as in 38.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-02 22:28 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs werner
2011-05-02 23:24 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <web-516990066@zbackend1.aha.ru>
2011-05-03 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-03 19:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-03 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-03 20:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-03 20:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-03 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-03 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-04 7:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-04 7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 7:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-04 8:35 ` [block IO crash] " Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 9:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 10:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 10:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 11:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 11:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-04 11:27 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-04 12:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-04 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 13:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 13:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 13:20 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-04 14:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 14:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 14:36 ` [PATCH] slub: Fix the lockless code on 32-bit platforms with no 64-bit cmpxchg Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 14:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 16:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 21:52 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-04 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 22:22 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-04 14:19 ` [block IO crash] Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 14:25 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-04 14:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 15:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 14:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 15:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 15:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 15:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 15:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-04 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 18:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 19:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 20:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 20:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-04 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 20:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 21:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 21:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 21:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-05 9:54 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-05 10:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-05 10:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-05 18:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-05 19:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-05 19:53 ` werner
2011-05-05 20:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-05 21:12 ` werner
2011-05-05 22:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <web-518008166@zbackend1.aha.ru>
[not found] ` <web-518059420@zbackend1.aha.ru>
[not found] ` <20110505060204.GA28015@elte.hu>
2011-05-05 6:46 ` werner
2011-05-04 15:37 ` [block IO crash] " Linus Torvalds
2011-05-04 16:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 16:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 17:12 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-05-04 15:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-04 13:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 14:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-04 14:07 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-04 14:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-04 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 10:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 10:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 11:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04 12:47 ` Ingo Molnar
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