Re: 2.6.39-rc6-mmotm0506 - lockdep splat in RCU code on page fault

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* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:57:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > -	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
> > > -	rnp->wakemask |= rdp->grpmask;
> > > -	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
> > > +	do {
> > > +		old = rnp->wakemask;
> > > +		new = old | rdp->grpmask;
> > > +	} while (cmpxchg(&rnp->wakemask, old, new) != old);
> > 
> > Hm, isnt this an inferior version of atomic_or_long() in essence?
> > 
> > Note that atomic_or_long() is x86 only, so a generic one would have to be 
> > offered too i suspect, atomic_cmpxchg() driven or so - which would look like 
> > the above loop.
> > 
> > Most architectures could offer atomic_or_long() i suspect.
> 
> Is the following what you had in mind?  This (untested) patch provides only 
> the generic function: if this is what you had in mind, I can put together 
> optimized versions for a couple of the architectures.

Yeah, something like this, except:

> +#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_OR_LONG
> +static inline void atomic_or_long(unsigned long *v1, unsigned long v2)
> +{
> +	unsigned long old;
> +	unsigned long new;
> +
> +	do {
> +		old = ACCESS_ONCE(*v1);
> +		new = old | v2;
> +	} while (cmpxchg(v1, old, new) != old);
> +}
> +#endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_OR_LONG */

Shouldnt that method work on atomic_t (or atomic64_t)?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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