Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757454Ab3GENqH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jul 2013 09:46:07 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:3151 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757410Ab3GENqF (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jul 2013 09:46:05 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,1001,1363132800"; d="scan'208";a="33626665" Message-ID: <51D6CE19.1050503@citrix.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:46:01 +0100 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120428 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , , , , Artem Savkov Subject: Re: [tip:timers/core] hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped) References: <1372329348-20841-2-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> <20130705093003.GA4033@cpv436-motbuntu> <51D69ACF.9020001@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.80.2.76] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1294 Lines: 33 On 05/07/13 11:25, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, David Vrabel wrote: > > You failed to CC Artem :( > >> On 05/07/13 10:30, Artem Savkov wrote: >>> This commit brings up a warning about a potential deadlock in >>> smp_call_function_many() discussed previously: >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/18/546 >> >> Can we just avoid the wait in clock_was_set()? Something like this? >> >> 8<------------------------------------------------------ >> hrtimers: do not wait for other CPUs in clock_was_set() >> >> Calling on_each_cpu() and waiting in a softirq causes a WARNing about >> a potential deadlock. >> >> Because hrtimers are per-CPU, it is sufficient to ensure that all >> other CPUs' timers are reprogrammed as soon as possible and before the >> next softirq on that CPU. There is no need to wait for this to be >> complete on all CPUs. Unfortunately this doesn't look sufficient. on_each_cpu(..., 0) may still wait for other calls to complete before queuing the calls due to the use of a single set of per-CPU csd data. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/