Re: possible spinlock optimizations

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:53:53 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>well, if you read Chuck's suggestion:
>
>[...]
>> besides, making the IRQ-masked spinlocks interruptible might mean that
>> we're more likely to interrupt a deadlock via SysRq, right?

YES: making the IRQ-masked spinlocks interruptible we are more likely to
interrupt a deadlock via SysRQ _even_ with the NMI applyed.

If my above sentence is wrong please explain me why.

I sure agree that it's not a good thing w.r.t. debugging to avoid
triggering the NMI oops as we won't get the whole stack trace from the
user with the SYSRQ+P way.

Andrea

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