Re: 2.6.16-rt10 crash on ppc

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, that patch is basically what I had in mind.
> 
> Is -rt ever allocating memory from really-hard-don't-preempt-me 
> context? I guess not, unless the zone->lock is one of those locks too, 
> right?

no. zone->lock (and all the slab locks, and all the other MM locks) are 
fully preemptible too.

> Should you add a
> 
>  #else
>     BUG_ON(_really_dont_preempt_me());
>  #endif
> 
> just for safety, or will such misusage get caught elsewhere (eg. when 
> attempting to take zone->lock).

it should be caught immediately, by the cond_resched().

	Ingo
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