From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 21:49:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170512194956.GH4626@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170512171544.100715273@goodmis.org>
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 01:15:44PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 2) Allow for get_online_cpus() to nest
So Thomas and me have been avoiding doing this.
In general we avoid nested locking in the kernel. Nested locking makes
an absolute mockery of locking rules and what all gets protected.
Yes, its much easier.. But we managed to kill the BKL, so surely we can
fix the hotplug lock too, right ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-12 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-12 17:15 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/5] tracing: Make sure RCU is watching before calling a stack trace Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 18:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 20:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 20:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-17 16:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/5] cpu-hotplug: Allow get_online_cpus() to nest Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 18:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 22:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-13 0:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/5] kprobes: Take get_online_cpus() before taking jump_label_lock() Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 18:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-17 17:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/5] tracepoints: Grab get_online_cpus() before taking tracepoints_mutex Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/5] perf: Grab event_mutex before taking get_online_cpus() Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/5] perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-05-12 20:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 21:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-13 13:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-15 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-15 18:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-16 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-16 12:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-16 14:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-17 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-17 14:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-18 3:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-15 19:06 ` Steven Rostedt
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