From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>, Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com>,
Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Terry Rudd <terry.rudd@hpe.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4 1/8] locking/drm: Kill mutex trickery
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 18:42:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161008164207.GH3568@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610081608390.5222@nanos>
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 04:11:25PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Well, when you add just trylock_recursive then people are going to use it
> anyway no matter whether it is easy or not.
>
> So if we decide to provide something which supports recursive locking for
> mutexes then we are better off doing it with a proper set of functions and
> not just a single undebugable wrapper.
So ideally I'd say, no recursive stuff at all. But that means the GEM
people need to either do custom hacks (and you know that will spread),
or need to be convinced to rework their locking somehow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 14:52 [PATCH -v4 0/8] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 1/8] locking/drm: Kill mutex trickery Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 15:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 16:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 21:58 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-08 11:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-08 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-08 14:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-08 16:42 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-11-09 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 12:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 11:22 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-11 11:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-12 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-14 14:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-14 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-18 12:57 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 2/8] locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-12 17:59 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-10-12 19:52 ` Jason Low
2016-10-13 15:18 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 3/8] locking/mutex: Kill arch specific code Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 4/8] locking/mutex: Allow MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when DEBUG_MUTEXES Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 5/8] locking/mutex: Add lock handoff to avoid starvation Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-13 15:14 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-17 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 18:45 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-17 19:07 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-18 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-27 13:55 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-09 11:52 ` [PATCH] locking/mutex: Clear mutex-handoff flag on interrupt Chris Wilson
2017-01-11 16:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-11 16:57 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-12 20:58 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 6/8] locking/mutex: Restructure wait loop Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-13 15:17 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-17 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 13:45 ` Boqun Feng
2016-10-17 15:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-19 17:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-24 1:57 ` ciao set_task_state() (was Re: [PATCH -v4 6/8] locking/mutex: Restructure wait loop) Davidlohr Bueso
2016-10-24 13:26 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-10-24 14:27 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-10-25 16:55 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-10-25 17:45 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-10-17 23:16 ` [PATCH -v4 6/8] locking/mutex: Restructure wait loop Waiman Long
2016-10-18 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 7/8] locking/mutex: Simplify some ww_mutex code in __mutex_lock_common() Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 8/8] locking/mutex: Enable optimistic spinning of woken waiter Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-13 15:28 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-17 9:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 23:21 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-18 12:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 15:20 ` [PATCH -v4 0/8] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex Linus Torvalds
2016-10-11 18:42 ` Jason Low
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