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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Question about x86/mm/gup.c's use of disabled interrupts
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:38:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C3B886.8080408@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320044029.GD6807@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> Ah, interesting.  So disabling interrupts prevents the RCU free from 
>> happening, and non-atomic pte fetching is a non-issue.  So it doesn't 
>> address the PAE side of the problem.
>>     
>
> This would be rcu_sched, correct?
>   

I guess?  Whatever it is that ends up calling all the rcu callbacks 
after the idle.  A cpu with disabled interrupts can't go through idle, 
right?  Or is there an explicit way to hold off rcu?

    J

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 19:17 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-18 21:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18 21:23   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-18 21:40     ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18 22:14       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-18 22:41         ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18 22:55           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-18 23:05             ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18 23:32               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-19  9:46                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-19 17:16                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-19 17:33                     ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]               ` <70513aa50903181617r418ec23s744544dccfd812e8@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-18 23:37                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-19  1:32 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-19 17:31   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-20  4:40     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-20 15:38       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-03-20 15:57         ` Paul E. McKenney

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