linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/preempt: fix cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:16:36 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/preempt: fix cond_resched_lock() and
 cond_resched_softirq()

On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 12:52 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> These functions check should_resched() before unlocking spinlock/bh-enable:
> preempt_count always non-zero => should_resched() always returns false.
> cond_resched_lock() worked iff spin_needbreak is set.

Interesting, this definitely used to work (linux-3.11)

Any idea of which commit broke things ?



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