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Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 04:38:21PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:33:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:49:36AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > Some arches may need:
> > > 
> > > i_am_lame_and_forgot_my_previous_context()
> > > 
> > > x86 will soon (4.3 or 4.4, depending on how my syscall cleanup goes)
> > > no longer need that.
> > > 
> > > Paul says that some arches need something that goes straight from IRQ
> > > to user mode (?) -- sigh.
> > 
> > Straight from IRQ to process-level kernel mode.  I ran into this in
> > late 2011, and clearly should have documented exactly what code was
> > doing this.  Something about invoking system calls from within the
> > kernel on some architectures.
> > 
> > Hey, if no architectures do this anymore, I could simplify RCU a bit!  ;-)
> 
> That issue has always been a bit foggy to me :-)
> 
> We never really stated what exactly the issue was. Just performing syscalls
> from kernel mode shouldn't fiddle with the dynticks count.
> 
> IIUC, the issue was that some IRQs triggered and never returned. But we
> certainly can't remove the safety code without clearly identifying the
> issue...

This was not a theoretical problem -- there were real failures.

But yes, the safety code is there and seems to work OK, so I do need
confirmation of a change before removing it.  I do recall someone
arguing that the half-interrupts should go away, but I never did hear
that they really did go away.

Adding linux-arch in the hope that someone can say for sure.

							Thanx, Paul

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[BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-11 20:00 +0200
  Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-11 20:40 +0200
    Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-11 21:10 +0200
      Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-11 23:50 +0200
        Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-12 00:00 +0200
          Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-12 03:00 +0200
            Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-12 03:20 +0200
              Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-12 15:40 +0200
      Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 17:00 +0200
    Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 16:40 +0200
      Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-12 18:00 +0200
  Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2015-08-11 20:50 +0200
    Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-12 00:00 +0200
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2015-08-12 22:20 +0200
    Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 16:30 +0200
      Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-12 18:10 +0200
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 03:30 +0200
          Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 15:10 +0200
        Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 15:10 +0200
  Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz  / RCU state josh@joshtriplett.org - 2015-08-11 21:40 +0200
  Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org> - 2015-08-11 23:40 +0200
  Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz /  RCU state Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 06:00 +0200
  Re: [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz / RCU state Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 16:30 +0200

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