From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] update kmap_atomic on !HIGHMEM
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:54:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167256455.14081.51.camel@imap.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061227212555.GA14947@elte.hu>
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 22:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> +void pagefault_disable(void)
> +{
> + current->pagefault_disabled++;
> + /*
> + * make sure to have issued the store before a pagefault
> + * can hit.
> + */
> + barrier();
> +}
> +
> +void pagefault_enable(void)
> +{
> + /*
> + * make sure to issue those last loads/stores before enabling
> + * the pagefault handler again.
> + */
> + barrier();
> + current->pagefault_disabled--;
> +}
> +
I'll test it, but clearly I'm not going to get the same scheduling while
atomic using this change.. So may as well just put it in -rt and see if
something crashes ..
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-27 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-27 19:35 Daniel Walker
2006-12-27 20:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-27 21:04 ` Daniel Walker
2006-12-27 21:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-27 21:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-27 21:37 ` Daniel Walker
2006-12-27 21:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-27 21:36 ` Daniel Walker
2006-12-27 21:54 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2006-12-28 0:05 ` Daniel Walker
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