Oh, wait... Petr Tesarik wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:57 +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: >> >> 1160 .work_pending_syscall: >> 1161 add r2=-8,r2 >> 1162 add r3=-8,r3 >> 1163 ;; >> 1164 st8 [r2]=r8 >> 1165 st8 [r3]=r10 >> 1166 .work_pending: >> 1167 tbit.z p6,p0=r31,TIF_NEED_RESCHED // current_thread_info()->need_resched==0? >> 1168 (p6) br.cond.sptk.few .notify >> 1169 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT >> 1170 (pKStk) dep r21=-1,r0,PREEMPT_ACTIVE_BIT,1 >> 1171 ;; >> 1172 (pKStk) st4 [r20]=r21 >> 1173 ssm psr.i // enable interrupts >> 1174 #endif >>> 1175 br.call.spnt.many rp=schedule >>> 1176 .ret9: cmp.eq p6,p0=r0,r0 // p6 <- 1 >>> 1177 rsm psr.i // disable interrupts >>> 1178 ;; >>> 1179 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT >>> 1180 (pKStk) adds r20=TI_PRE_COUNT+IA64_TASK_SIZE,r13 >>> 1181 ;; >>> 1182 (pKStk) st4 [r20]=r0 // preempt_count() <- 0 >>> 1183 #endif >>> 1184 (pLvSys)br.cond.sptk.few .work_pending_syscall_end >>> 1185 br.cond.sptk.many .work_processed_kernel // re-check >>> 1186 >>> 1187 .notify: >>> 1188 (pUStk) br.call.spnt.many rp=notify_resume_user >>> >> AFAIK, we always call notify_resume_user() with interrupts disabled. >> Is this right? If I am right, this also means we always call schedule() with interrupts disabled, when it is required without CONFIG_PREEMPT. ...Doesn't it matter, Tony? I think it is quite strange. >> Hmm, could you make ia64_sync_kernel_rbs to safe with interrupts >> disabled, Petr? > > No, the point of that function is to copy part of the kernel RBS to user > RBS. Accesses to user space are always allowed to sleep and there's > nothing I can do about it (without rewriting the whole memory management > in Linux from scratch). All I can do is to take the simpler approach > without TIF_RESTORE_RSE I proposed in the very beginning of the RSE sync > discussion, but which was then turned down, because Roland warned about > possible severe performance degradations. > > The introduction of TIF_RESTORE_RSE was originally Shaohua's idea, so > maybe he knows how to do it properly. > > BTW why must be interrupts disabled in this path? Would it be possible > to re-enable them for the duration of the synchronization, or does it > harm somehow? Good point. I'm not sure the reason, but I suppose we can call notify_resume_user() and schedule() with interrupts enabled. Possibly we must do so. Thanks, H.Seto -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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