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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited private command

From "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited private command
Date 2017-09-21 17:30 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 03:11:43PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Sep 21, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 06:36:47PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >> @@ -3373,6 +3362,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> >>  
> >>  		/* Also unlocks the rq: */
> >>  		rq = context_switch(rq, prev, next, &rf);
> >> +		membarrier_arch_sched_in(prev, next);
> > 
> > That's wrong iirc; we just switched stacks, you cannot use @prev and
> > @next.
> 
> Yes, it did indeed explode spectacularly at boot in testing. RFC v3 fixes that.

Good to hear that there is a useful test.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
> 
> Mathieu
> 
> 
> > 
> >>  	} else {
> >>  		rq->clock_update_flags &= ~(RQCF_ACT_SKIP|RQCF_REQ_SKIP);
> > >  		rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf);
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> EfficiOS Inc.
> http://www.efficios.com
> 

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[RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited private command Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2017-09-19 00:40 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 2/2] membarrier: selftest: Test private expedited cmd Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2017-09-19 00:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited  private command Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-21 14:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited  private command Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2017-09-21 17:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited  private command "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-21 17:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] membarrier: Provide register expedited  private command Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2017-09-21 17:50 +0200

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