From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while blocking
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:47:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314974826.1861.1.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38bb37e15f6e5056d5238adac945bc1837a996ec.1314922370.git.jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 17:55 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
>
> We need to make sure interrupts are disabled while we're relying on the
> contents of the per-cpu lock_waiting values, otherwise an interrupt
> handler could come in, try to take some other lock, block, and overwrite
> our values.
Would this make it illegal to take a spinlock from NMI context?
I know that its generally considered bad form, but there's at least one
spinlock that's only taken from NMI context and thus hasn't got any
deadlock potential.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 0:54 [PATCH 00/13] [PATCH RFC] Paravirtualized ticketlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:54 ` [PATCH 01/13] x86/spinlocks: replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:54 ` [PATCH 02/13] x86/ticketlock: collapse a layer of functions Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:54 ` [PATCH 03/13] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:54 ` [PATCH 04/13] x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for lock_spinning Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:54 ` [PATCH 05/13] x86/ticketlocks: when paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:54 ` [PATCH 06/13] x86/ticketlock: add slowpath logic Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 18:46 ` Eric Northup
2011-09-02 19:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 07/13] x86/ticketlocks: tidy up __ticket_unlock_kick() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while blocking Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 14:47 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-02 19:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 20:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-02 21:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 22:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-02 23:14 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-05 11:52 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-09-05 12:05 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 15:14 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-06 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-06 18:27 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-06 18:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-07 4:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 13:44 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-07 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 15:56 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-07 16:25 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 16:52 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-07 17:09 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 17:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-07 17:41 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 19:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-08 7:51 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-08 17:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-11 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 17:21 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-07 17:41 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-13 18:40 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-13 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-13 19:21 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-13 19:58 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-13 20:53 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-13 21:04 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-14 7:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-14 12:49 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-14 14:49 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-14 15:01 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-14 17:28 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-14 19:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-14 19:34 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-14 19:56 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-13 19:27 ` Don Zickus
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 09/13] x86/pvticketlocks: we only need to kick if there's waiters Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 10/13] xen/pvticket: allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-02 19:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 11/13] x86/ticketlock: only do kick after doing unlock Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 14:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-02 19:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 12/13] x86/pvticketlock: make sure unlock_kick pvop call is inlined Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 0:55 ` [PATCH 13/13] x86/pvticketlock: use __ticket_t for pvop args Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 11:22 ` [PATCH 00/13] [PATCH RFC] Paravirtualized ticketlocks Stefano Stabellini
2011-09-06 19:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-02 20:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-02 21:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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