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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:34:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [Problem] Cache line starvation
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> 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).

So it was some interaction with rdtsc() which got stored on
stack. Heisenbugs are lovely.

Thanks,

	tglx