Re: frequent softlockups with 3.10rc6.

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

 > > Ah, this is the first victim of my new 'check sanity of nodes during list walks' patch.
 > > It's doing the same prev->next next->prev checking as list_add and friends.
 > > I'm looking at getting it into shape for a 3.12 merge after some other preparatory patches
 > > go into 3.11
 > 
 > OK, and you may need to make an exception for the ring buffer. To do a
 > lockless swap out of the reader page for one of the pages in the buffer,
 > it uses the 2 LSB as flags. Notice the "next=ffff880243288001", that "1"
 > is a flag that states the next page is the "header" page (next to be
 > read). We use cmpxchg to update the pages to handle races between the
 > reader and writer.

I just had a plumber come visit to replace my toilet.
I think even he would say "dude, gross" about that hack.

	Dave

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