From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke <thavatchai.makpahibulchoke@hp.com>,
Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.14.25-rt22 1/2] rtmutex Real-Time Linux: Fixing kernel BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:997!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:06:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226090610.7eb0ac61@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150226135630.GD12992@linutronix.de>
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:56:30 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:
> I am not sure if we want keep doing that. The only reason why we grab
> the lock in the first place was to check if there is a timer pending
> and we run on the isolated CPU. It should not matter for the other CPUs,
> right?
> So instead going further that road, what about storing base->next_timer
> someplace so it can be obtained via atomic_read() for the isolated CPUs?
>
If we can pull that off and remove all rtmutex trylocks from hardirq
context, I would much rather do that.
This hocus pocus coding is just going to lead us down the path of the
black arts. I already have a black cat, so I'm good to go.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-26 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-20 1:31 [PATCH 3.14.25-rt22 0/2] rtmutex Real-Time Linux: fix kernel BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:997! and some optimization Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-02-20 1:31 ` [PATCH 3.14.25-rt22 1/2] rtmutex Real-Time Linux: Fixing kernel BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:997! Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-02-20 4:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-20 18:54 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-02-21 1:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-23 18:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-24 0:16 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-02-24 0:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-26 13:56 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2015-02-26 14:06 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2015-03-06 12:19 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2015-03-09 16:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-09 16:49 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2015-02-20 1:31 ` [PATCH 3.14.25-rt22 2/2] kernel/locking/rtmutex.c: some code optimization Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-04-07 1:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] rtmutex Real-Time Linux: fix BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:997! Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-04-07 1:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] rtmutex Real-Time Linux: Fixing kernel " Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-04-07 1:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-07 5:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-07 10:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 10:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-07 10:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 11:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-08 0:55 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-04-08 8:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-09 22:56 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2015-04-07 11:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-07 11:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-07 12:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 12:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 12:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-07 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-07 13:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-07 18:12 ` Jason Low
2015-04-07 19:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-07 19:57 ` Jason Low
2015-04-07 21:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-07 1:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] kernel/locking/rtmutex.c: some code optimization Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
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