From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:11:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208141126.GY6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170208140332.syic3peyfavd3kl6@techsingularity.net>
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:03:32PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Yeah, we'll sort that out once it hits Linus tree and we move RT forward.
> > Though I have once complaint right away:
> >
> > + preempt_enable_no_resched();
> >
> > This is a nono, even in mainline. You effectively disable a preemption
> > point.
> >
>
> This came up during review on whether it should or shouldn't be a preemption
> point. Initially it was preempt_enable() but a preemption point didn't
> exist before, the reviewer pushed for it and as it was the allocator fast
> path that was unlikely to need a reschedule or preempt, I made the change.
Not relevant. The only acceptable use of preempt_enable_no_resched() is
if the next statement is a schedule() variant.
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-29 12:44 Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-29 17:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-30 15:48 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-02-06 19:13 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-02-06 22:05 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 8:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 9:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 9:46 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 10:42 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 11:13 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 9:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 10:05 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 10:28 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 10:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 11:34 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 11:43 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 11:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 12:37 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 12:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 13:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 13:58 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 14:19 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 15:34 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 16:22 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 16:41 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 16:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-07 22:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-08 7:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 12:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-08 12:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 12:26 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-08 13:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-08 14:03 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-08 14:11 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-02-08 15:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-08 15:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-08 17:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 3:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 11:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 14:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 16:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 17:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 17:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 19:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-10 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-08 15:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-07 17:03 ` Tejun Heo
2017-02-07 20:16 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 13:03 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 13:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 11:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-02-07 8:43 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 21:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
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