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Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:37:02AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
> 
> | RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
> | rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> | RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> | no locks held by swapper/1/0.
> | 
> |  [<ffffffff9d492b95>] do_trace_write_msr+0x135/0x140
> |  [<ffffffff9d06f860>] native_write_msr+0x20/0x30
> |  [<ffffffff9d065fad>] native_apic_msr_eoi_write+0x1d/0x30
> |  [<ffffffff9d05bd1d>] smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x1d/0x30
> |  [<ffffffff9d8daec6>] reschedule_interrupt+0x96/0xa0

Please remove the text between [] and the offsets after "+..." - those
are useless in a commit message.

> Reschedule interrupt may be called in cpu idle state. This causes lockdep

s/cpu/CPU/

> check warning above.
> 
> As Peterz pointed out:
> 
> | So now we're making a very frequent interrupt slower because of debug 
> | code.
> |
> | The thing is, many many smp_reschedule_interrupt() invocations don't
> | actually execute anything much at all and are only send to tickle the

s/send/sent/

> | return to user path (which does the actual preemption).
> | 
> | Having to do the whole irq_enter/irq_exit dance just for this unlikely
> | debug case totally blows.
> 
> This patch converts x2apic write eoi msr to notrace to avoid the debug 
> codes splash and reverts irq_enter/irq_exit dance to avoid to make a very 
> frequent interrupt slower because of debug code.
> 
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
> ---

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH v7 0/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 02:40 +0100
  [PATCH v7 1/2] x86/msr: Add write msr notrace  Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 02:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] x86/msr: Add write msr notrace Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-11-02 22:20 +0100
  [PATCH v7 2/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 02:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-11-02 22:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 05:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] x86/apic: x2apic write eoi msr notrace Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-11-02 22:20 +0100

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