netdev - Re: suspicious RCU usage warnings in 3.3.0

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Message-ID: <20120413163029.GA2402@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:30:34 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mroos@...ux.ee, shemminger@...tta.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suspicious RCU usage warnings in 3.3.0

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:55:56AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:35:13 -0700
> 
> DANGER WILL ROBINSON, McKenney is hacking sparc64 assembler!
> :-))))

;-) ;-) ;-)

> > My main concern about my patch is my removal of this line:
> > 
> > 	bne,pn			%icc, __handle_softirq
> > 
> > It is quite possible that this should instead change to look as follows:
> > 
> > 	bne,pn			%icc, __handle_preemption
> > 
> 
> I would say it should not, because the __handle_softirq code path,
> if taken, unconditionally branches to the very next instruction
> after this branch and it's delay slot.

Beginners luck beats skill.  Now I just have to be very careful to
avoid ever submitting a second sparc64 assembler patch.  ;-)

> > Anyway, patch with updated changelog below.
> 
> Great work, I'll apply this after I test it out a bit myself.

Cool!!!

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks a lot Paul!
> 

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