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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix x86_64 _spin_lock_irqsave()
On 24 Aug 2006 08:45:11 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Edward Falk <efalk@google.com> writes:
>
> > Add spin_lock_string_flags and _raw_spin_lock_flags() to
> > asm-x86_64/spinlock.h so that _spin_lock_irqsave() has the same
> > semantics on x86_64 as it does on i386 and does *not* have interrupts
> > disabled while it is waiting for the lock.
>
> Did it fix anything for you?
>

It's the rendezvous-via-IPI problem. Suppose we want to capture all CPUs
in an IPI handler (TSC sync, for example).

- CPUa holds read_lock(&tasklist_lock)
- CPUb is spinning in write_lock_irq(&taslist_lock)
- CPUa enters its IPI handler and spins
- CPUb never takes the IPI and we're dead.

Re-enabling interrupts while we spin will prevent that. But I suspect that
if we ever want to implement IPI rendezvous (and cannot use the
stop_machine_run() thing) then we might still have problems. A valid
optimisation (which we use in some places) is:

local_irq_save(flags);
<stuff>
write_lock(lock);


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