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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cmetcalf@tilera.com
Cc: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, cypher.w@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IGMP and rwlock: Dead ocurred again on TILEPro
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:53:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217.145333.232751283.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5DA60A.8080201@tilera.com>

From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:49:46 -0500

> The fix is to disable interrupts for the arch_read_lock family of methods. 

How does that help handle the race when it happens between different
cpus, instead of between IRQ and non-IRQ context on the same CPU?

Why don't you just use the generic spinlock based rwlock code on Tile,
since that is all that your atomic instructions can handle
sufficiently?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17  3:39 Fwd: IGMP and rwlock: Dead ocurred again on TILEPro Cypher Wu
2011-02-17  4:49 ` Américo Wang
2011-02-17  5:04   ` Cypher Wu
2011-02-17  5:42     ` Américo Wang
2011-02-17  5:46       ` David Miller
2011-02-17  6:39         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-17 22:49         ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-17 22:53           ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-17 23:04             ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-17 23:11               ` David Miller
2011-02-17 23:18                 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-18  3:16                   ` Cypher Wu
2011-02-18  3:19                   ` Cypher Wu
2011-02-18  7:08                   ` Cypher Wu
2011-02-18 21:51                     ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-19  4:07                       ` Cypher Wu
2011-02-20 13:33                         ` Chris Metcalf
2011-03-01 18:30                     ` [PATCH] arch/tile: fix deadlock bugs in rwlock implementation Chris Metcalf
2011-02-17  6:42       ` Fwd: IGMP and rwlock: Dead ocurred again on TILEPro Cypher Wu

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