Re: irq lock inversion
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Nov 06 2009 - 03:53:23 EST
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> My question is, why do we do flags save/restore in pcpu-alloc?
That's strictly for calls from sched_init().
> Do we ever call it with irqs disabled? If yes, then the vfree might
> be unsafe due to vfree() potentially flushing TLBs (on all CPUs) and
> that act of sending IPIs requiring irqs to be enabled.
And when called from sched_init(), it won't call vfree().
> ( Now, Nick has optimized vfree recently to lazy-free areas, but that
> was a statistical optimization: TLB flushes are still possible, just
> done more rarely. So we might end up calling flush_tlb_kernel_range()
> from vfree(). I've Cc:-ed Nick. )
Nevertheless, it would be nice to allow at least the free part to be
called from irqsafe context. vmalloc is doing a lot of things lazily
so deferring TLB flushes to a work wouldn't make much difference, I
suppose?
Thanks.
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tejun
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