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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: "linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARC: show_regs: fix lockdep splat for good
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:27:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181221132753.GB4842@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221130404.GF16107@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Fri 21-12-18 14:04:04, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> Yes, but you are building on a broken concept I believe. What
> implications does re-enabling really have? Now you could reschedule and
> you can move to another CPU. Is this really safe? I believe that yes
> because the preemption disabling is simply bogus. Which doesn't sound
> like a proper justification, does it?

Well, thinking about it a bit more. What is the result of calling
preempt_enable outside of preempt_disabled section? E.g. __warn which
doesn't disable preemption AFAICS.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-18 18:53 [PATCH 0/2] ARC show_regs fixes Vineet Gupta
2018-12-18 18:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARC: show_regs: avoid page allocator Vineet Gupta
2018-12-19 17:04   ` Eugeniy Paltsev
2018-12-19 17:36     ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-20  1:16     ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-20 13:30       ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-12-20 18:36         ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-20 18:43         ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-19 20:46   ` William Kucharski
2018-12-19 21:36     ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-20 12:57   ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-20 18:38     ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-18 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARC: show_regs: fix lockdep splat for good Vineet Gupta
2018-12-20 13:04   ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-20 18:45     ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-21 13:04       ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-21 13:27         ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-12-21 17:55         ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-21 17:55           ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-24 19:10           ` Michal Hocko

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