linux-kernel - Re: 'global' rq->clock

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Date:	Sun, 04 May 2008 08:30:55 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, efault@....de,
	elendil@...net.nl, parag.warudkar@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, guichaz@...oo.fr, andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: 'global' rq->clock


On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 12:27 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > ( although please note that the growing generalization that goes on
> >   _did_ find a subtle nohz problem on sparc64 early in the merge
> window,
> >   so it's not like these changes are totally useless to you. )
> 
> Note that this bug theoretically exists on every platform,
> even x86, and only sparc64 is fixed at the moment by adding
> the irq_{entry,exit}() guards around all of it's IPI handlers.

What is the bug ?

IPIs on power are normal interrupts, so they do happen in irq_entry/exit
blocks but I'm curious to know what the root bug is :-)

Ben.


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