linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] scheduler/misc fixes

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:30:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler/misc fixes

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:24:18 +0200

> FWIW I do think this is a valid 'bug' fix in that the called user func()
> can now see its from interrupt context. in_interrupt() would have
> reported false due to the missing irq_enter()/irq_exit() - not sure if
> any smp_call_function() relies on it though.

Understood.

I thought a bit and I remember that I did notice long ago that x86 did
these irq_enter() calls in SMP call function processing, but it seemed
like pure overhead at the time and wasn't actually needed.

Anyways, Peter can you give your state machine thing another shot?
Maybe it will help us see what is wrong either in the sparc64 code
or in the NOHZ/sched bits.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/