From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932699AbWL0Vhj (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:37:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754790AbWL0Vhj (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:37:39 -0500 Received: from homer.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:44121 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754750AbWL0Vhj (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:37:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] update kmap_atomic on !HIGHMEM From: Daniel Walker To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061227212555.GA14947@elte.hu> References: <20061227193550.324850000@mvista.com> <20061227212555.GA14947@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:36:56 -0800 Message-Id: <1167255416.14081.46.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 22:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker wrote: > > > I got some scheduling while atomic on x86-64 , and since x86-64 > > doesn't seem to have HIGHMEM there's no workaround for kmap_atomic() . > > > > This patch adds the same as i386 HIGHMEM for !HIGHMEM. > > the problem is that this does not disable pagefaulting while > kmap-atomic. Could you try the patch below, does it solve the assert? > That goes for the other CONFIG_HIGHMEM changes also? I mean if we can't do it here we shouldn't do it else where.. (note, I just used testscripts/ltpstress.sh from LTP to reproduce this.) Daniel