Re: [raw v1 0/4] Replace __this_cpu ops with raw_cpu_ops wherenecessary

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The kernel can detect __this_cpu ops in preemptible contexts after the 
> preemption check patchset that I posted last week.
> 
> Here is a selection of patches to fix false positives caused by the 
> additional checks. So far I have found no bug. Amazing. Looks like there 
> was some prior work done to shake these things out?

You can probably thank -rt/PREEMPT_RT for such efforts - I think Thomas in 
particular has hit a couple of genuine bugs with __this_cpu APIs the hard 
way and then fixed them.

This series, once finished, will allow us to detect such problems cheaper 
and earlier.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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