From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753885Ab2GPW5q (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:57:46 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:47096 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752693Ab2GPW5n (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:57:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:57:36 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: LKML , Alessio Igor Bogani , Andrew Morton , Avi Kivity , Chris Metcalf , Christoph Lameter , Geoff Levand , Gilad Ben Yossef , Hakan Akkan , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Josh Triplett , Kevin Hilman , Max Krasnyansky , Peter Zijlstra , Stephen Hemminger , Steven Rostedt , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] rcu: Userspace RCU extended quiescent state v2 Message-ID: <20120716225733.GB28744@somewhere> References: <1342031200-22731-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20120716221556.GH2403@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120716221556.GH2403@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:15:56PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:26:29PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There are significant changes this time. I reverted back to using > > a TIF flag to hook on syscalls slow path and put the hooks on > > high level exception handlers instead of low level ones. > > > > It makes the code more portable between x86-32 and x86-64, it > > makes the hooks clearer and easier to review and the overhead > > is lowered in the off-case. This can be even better if we use > > jump labels later. > > Thank you, Frederic, I have queued these: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git rcu/idle > > I had to rework patch 4 a bit to take into account that I dropped the > rcu_switch_from() patch, please check it to make sure that I didn't > rework it out of existence. > > Thanx, Paul Ok so it crashed once and I got 3 successful reboots afterward. Not sure what was the issue, not sure that's even due to my patches. Anyway, I'll tell you if I see the crash again.