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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched: memory corruption on completing completions
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 10:30:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150205093024.GF5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwJcG0eAzFJEKD0KVKF2vug-pQpZcoboue9D9SdarsjoQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 04:16:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Why did I think we had this bug but already fixed it ? Maybe it's one
> of those things that Waiman fixed in his long delayed qspinlock
> series? Waiman? 

ISTR that that would do the exact same thing, but I need to go look a
the latest paravirt code -- that's the part that we all were still
bothered with.

> Or maybe I just remember the fixes where we changed
> from a mutex to a spinlock, which fixed a very similar case for
> non-paravirtualized cases.

I think we had a non paravirt mutex case last year or so.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-05  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-04 23:24 Sasha Levin
2015-02-04 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-05  0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-05  7:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-05  9:30   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-02-05 20:44     ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-05 20:59   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-05 21:02     ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-05 21:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-05 22:37         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-05 22:57           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-06  6:48             ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-06 15:00               ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-06 12:29           ` Raghavendra K T

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