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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: zhe.he@windriver.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	boqun.feng@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kmemleak: Turn kmemleak_lock to raw spinlock on RT
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:06:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181123110611.s2gmd237j7docrxt@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181123110226.GA5125@andrea>

On 2018-11-23 12:02:55 [+0100], Andrea Parri wrote:
> > is this an RT-only problem? Because mainline should not allow read->read
> > locking or read->write locking for reader-writer locks. If this only
> > happens on v4.18 and not on v4.19 then something must have fixed it.
> 
> Probably misunderstanding, but I'd say that read->read locking is "the
> norm"...?
> 
> If you don't use qrwlock, readers are also "recursive", in part.,
> 
>   P0			P1
>   read_lock(l)
> 			write_lock(l)
>   read_lock(l)
> 
> won't block P0 on the second read_lock().  (qrwlock somehow complicate
> the analysis; IIUC, they are recursive if and only if in_interrupt().).

ehm, peterz, is that true? My memory on that is that all readers will
block if there is a writer pending.

>   Andrea

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-23 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-22  9:04 [PATCH v2] kmemleak: Turn kmemleak_lock to raw spinlock on RT zhe.he
2018-11-22 10:16 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-11-23  9:53 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-11-23 11:02   ` Andrea Parri
2018-11-23 11:06     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2018-11-23 11:31       ` Catalin Marinas
2018-11-23 15:51         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-26  8:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-24 14:26   ` He Zhe
2018-11-30 18:19     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-05 13:53       ` He Zhe
2018-12-05 19:14         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-18 10:51           ` He Zhe
2018-12-18 15:07             ` Catalin Marinas
2018-12-19 15:30               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-12-20  1:46                 ` He Zhe
2018-12-18 15:12 ` Catalin Marinas

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