Re: [PATCH 3/4] sparc64: convert spinlock_t to raw_spinlock_t in mmu_context_t

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From: Allen Pais <allen.pais@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:23:46 +0530

>  I realized locking in tsb is very tricky. My attempts to try and get hackbench run
> without causing a stall failed. So here's what I tried to fix it, am not sure if it's
> an appropriate fix, I would love to get comments. I have tested this fix for over 24 hours
> with hackbench and dd, the system did not stall :)

If using a local lock fixes your problem, it just means we're being
preempted during flush_tsb_user() which is absolutely not allowed.

The batch is a per-cpu object, and must be forcibly flushed if we
preempt.
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