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Message-ID: <487D1E1E.9060609@goop.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:01:02 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
>
>
>> When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, it falls back to allocating the
>> data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call.
>>
>> Make sure we actually wait in this case.
>>
>
> cool, thanks!
>
> does this explain the xen64 weirdnesses you've been seeing?
>
No, but I haven't seen it lately. I think the other RCU fixes may have
helped. But it's all a bit of a worry: I didn't have a good theory
about what was going wrong, the RCU patches didn't look like they'd fix
the symptoms I was seeing.
I've seen it with 32 and 64-bit Xen, but there's nothing about the
problem which makes me think it's really Xen specific. If it were, I'd
expect to see failures all over the place, rather than in just in this
one specific place.
I'm concerned there's a lurking bug, particularly if it's a generic race
or something that happens to be triggered when running under Xen because
of the timing changes. I've tried reproducing it in a hvm Xen domain
(so it's running the normal x86 kernel fully virtualized, but with the
Xen scheduler, etc). I didn't see a problem, but it isn't a very
convincing test one way or the other.
J
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