> Yeah, semaphores can't be used from hardirq contexts for much the same > reasons. But its all ia64 code, right? So I'm not directly seeing how > other archs are affected here. The root of the problem is a call chain like this: [<a00000010005c200>] ia64_global_tlb_purge+0x540/0xa40 sp=e0000001c28afca0 bsp=e0000001c28a0ea0 [<a00000010005c8a0>] flush_tlb_range+0x1a0/0x240 sp=e0000001c28afca0 bsp=e0000001c28a0e70 [<a000000100105a90>] page_referenced_one+0x170/0x260 sp=e0000001c28afca0 bsp=e0000001c28a0e20 [<a000000100105f20>] page_referenced+0x180/0x320 sp=e0000001c28afcb0 bsp=e0000001c28a0dd0 [<a0000001000ec640>] shrink_active_list+0x520/0xbc0 sp=e0000001c28afcc0 bsp=e0000001c28a0d48 [<a0000001000ece30>] shrink_zone+0x150/0x200 sp=e0000001c28afd80 bsp=e0000001c28a0d00 [<a0000001000edaf0>] kswapd+0x690/0x940 sp=e0000001c28afd80 bsp=e0000001c28a0c40 [<a0000001000a6860>] kthread+0xa0/0x120 sp=e0000001c28afe30 bsp=e0000001c28a0c10 [<a000000100013b70>] kernel_thread_helper+0x30/0x60 sp=e0000001c28afe30 bsp=e0000001c28a0be0 [<a0000001000089c0>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40 sp=e0000001c28afe30 bsp=e0000001c28a0be0 Some place in the upper (arch independent) parts of this trace the code acquires an anon_vma_lock and holds it while calling into arch specific code (there is presumably some inlining going on here because the source doesn't have an obvious call from page_referenced_one() to flush_tlb_range()). My concern for other architectures (especially ones that require IPI to complete the TLB shootdown) is that holding anon_vma_lock while doing the shootdown leaves them open for some deadlock scenarios in this code path. But perhaps I completley misunderstand how IPI shootdown happens (very possible). -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Mar 21 04:46:52 2008
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