linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] preempt: Track unmatched preempt_enable() to preempt

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:42:07 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] preempt: Track unmatched preempt_enable() to
 preempt_disable()

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:18:24 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> 
> Back in the original real-time patch there was a nice debug feature
> that tracked where preemption was disabled and not matched by a preempt
> enable. This information made debugging scheduling while atomic much
> easier, especially when a function was buried in a function chain
> that happened just before the schedule. For example:
> 

> Although this bug does not happen often, this feature is extremely helpful
> when it does. I decided to take Ingo's code, which was just written for
> debugging the -rt patch, and clean it up for something that is suitable
> for mainline.
> 

Hmm, I rewrote this prologue a few times, and even though patch 2 states
this, I want to make it clear that the original feature, that this is
based on, was written by Ingo Molnar. I had it clear in my original
version of the prologue, but somehow it was deleted.

-- Steve
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