linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time

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Date:	Mon, 6 May 2013 07:33:28 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
>
> Doesn't i386 have all the funny per-cpu stuff too? So the only reason it still
> does the fugly stack based thing is because nobody could be arsed to do the
> work of converting it.

Umm. That "fugly stack-based" thing is better than the per-cpu crap.

The percpu stuff implies a memory load. The stack based thing gets
thread_info with pure register accesses. Much better.

For "current()" the per-cpu thing may be better, but if you actually
need the thread-info (not the case here, but in other places), the
stack masking is superior when it works (ie when you don't have
multi-stack issues due to irq's etc)

                Linus
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