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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:13:03 -0800
From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, "Erhard F ." <erhard_f@...lbox.org>,
kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: Fix scheduling with interrupts disabled in
self-test
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:44:35AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2023-01-12 10:24:43, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 08:54:26PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > > kallsyms_on_each* may schedule so must not be called with interrupts
> > > disabled. The iteration function could disable interrupts, but this
> > > also changes lookup_symbol() to match the change to the other timing
> > > code.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Erhard F. <erhard_f@...lbox.org>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bug-216902-206035@https.bugzilla.kernel.org%2F/
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202212251728.8d0872ff-oliver.sang@intel.com
> > > Fixes: 30f3bb09778d ("kallsyms: Add self-test facility")
> > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > Thanks Nicholas!
> >
> > Petr had just suggested removing this aspect of the selftests, the performance
> > test as its specific to the config, it doesn't run many times to get an
> > average and odd things on a system can create different metrics. Zhen Lei
> > had given up on fixing it and has a patch to instead remove this part of
> > the selftest.
> >
> > I still find value in keeping it, but Petr, would like your opinion on
> > this fix, if we were to keep it.
>
> I am fine with this fix.
Merged the fix. I'll push to Linus for 6.2-rc4
Luis
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