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Message-ID: <20070620014924.GA19080@Krystal>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:49:24 -0400
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
mbligh@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 in 2.6.22-rc4-mm2
* Anthony Liguori (anthony@...emonkey.ws) wrote:
> This is actually very conservative seeing as how disabling CR4.PGE
> should be sufficient to flush global pages on modern processors. I
> suspect you're getting preempted while it's running.
>
Sorry, I just realized that I rejected your preemption explanation
without explaining why:
1 - In my "Text Section" lock code, which is the original place where I
triggered the problem, I take a spinlock around these operations, which
disables preemption.
2 - My sample module plays alone in its own data structures: there is
only one thread accessing the data at a given time (because I do only
one file open at a given time, which I control).
Regards,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
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