Re: [COUNTERPATCH] mm: avoid overflowing preempt_count() in mmu_take_all_locks()

[Avi Kivity]

On 04/01/2010 06:36 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 01:16:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>    
> > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 14:13 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > If someone is willing to audit all code paths to make sure these locks
> > > are always taken in schedulable context I agree that's a better fix.
> > >        
> > They had better be, they're not irq-safe. Also that's what lockdep is
> > for.
> >      
> In my original patchset I included patches from Christoph to convert
> those locks to mutexes, there was apparently no problem at all with
> that. But frankly I think the only problem here is the warning. The
> only compliant we ever had here is from developers, no users at
> all. If this was a practical problem I think we should have heard
> something by now with so many KVM users out there (and gru too).
>
> The only single reason I'd go for mutexes would be to accommodate
> XPMEM requirements once and for all, no other reason.
>    

There is also a minor benefit for kvm.  Reduced latency over large mmu 
operations; code simplification (we now have some 
copy_from_user_inatomic() that could be simplified).

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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