From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, shemminger@osdl.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
rusty@au1.ibm.com, tgall@us.ibm.com, jim.houston@comcast.net,
gh@us.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Real-Time Preemption and RCU
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:25:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111310736.17944.24.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423D19FE.7020902@colorfullife.com>
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 07:36 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> cpu 1:
> acquire random networking spin_lock_bh()
>
> cpu 2:
> read_lock(&tasklist_lock) from process context
> interrupt. softirq. within softirq: try to acquire the networking lock.
> * spins.
>
> cpu 1:
> hardware interrupt
> within hw interrupt: signal delivery. tries to acquire tasklist_lock.
>
> --> deadlock.
Signal delivery from hw interrupt context (interrupt is flagged
SA_NODELAY) is not possible in RT preemption mode. The
local_irq_save_nort() check in __cache_alloc will catch you.
When it happens from a threaded irq handler the situation is solvable by
the PI code.
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-18 0:20 Real-Time Preemption and RCU Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 7:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 16:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 17:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 20:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 22:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-19 0:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 9:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 9:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 15:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-19 5:03 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-03-19 16:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-20 6:36 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-03-20 9:25 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2005-03-20 16:57 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-03-20 21:38 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-20 21:59 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-18 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 16:48 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-18 17:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-20 13:29 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-20 22:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-20 23:23 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-22 5:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-22 8:55 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-22 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-22 10:19 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-23 5:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-23 11:44 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-24 7:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-22 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-22 11:39 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-22 13:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-22 15:08 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-18 15:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 11:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 12:56 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-18 13:17 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-18 15:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 16:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 16:55 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-22 10:04 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-22 10:17 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-22 10:34 ` Bill Huey
2005-03-22 10:38 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-03-18 22:26 ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-19 16:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-20 8:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-22 8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-18 15:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-03-18 15:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-11 22:57 real-time preemption " James Huang
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