linux-kernel - Re: perf: aux area related crash and warnings

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:11:03 +0300
From:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...il.com>
Subject: Re: perf: aux area related crash and warnings

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:37:06PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> Ok, here's what I propose for this one.
>
> As discussed yesterday, I think we want to change to how we do reference
> counting for the regular buffers, but that will require quite a bit of
> work.
>
> For the interim we can avoid the issue by something like the below;
> compile tested only.

Looks good and works fine on my tests. Only I'd maybe add a small
comment on why reusing rcu_head.next doesn't set off call_rcu()
debugging. Other than that, fwiw,

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>

Thanks,
--
Alex
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