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From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [Problem] Cache line starvation
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On 2018-09-27 16:47:47 [+0200], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I wonder if it's just the store on the stack which makes it work. I've seen
> that when instrumenting x86. When the careful instrumentation just stayed
> in registers it failed. Once it was too much and stack got involved it
> vanished away.

Added two load/stores into wait_task_inactive() and it still triggers
(on the core2duo).

> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

Sebastian