linux/arch/x86
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 4d576b57b5 xen: only enable interrupts while actually blocking for spinlock
Where possible we enable interrupts while waiting for a spinlock to
become free, in order to reduce big latency spikes in interrupt handling.

However, at present if we manage to pick up the spinlock just before
blocking, we'll end up holding the lock with interrupts enabled for a
while.  This will cause a deadlock if we recieve an interrupt in that
window, and the interrupt handler tries to take the lock too.

Solve this by shrinking the interrupt-enabled region to just around the
blocking call.

[ Impact: avoid race/deadlock when using Xen PV spinlocks ]

Reported-by: "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-09-09 16:38:11 -07:00
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boot x86: add vmlinux.lds to targets in arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile 2009-08-20 16:08:58 -07:00
configs Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: aes-ni - Remove CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP from fpu template 2009-06-18 19:44:01 +08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'core/signal' into perfcounters/core 2009-04-30 21:16:49 +02:00
include/asm x86, pat: Allow ISA memory range uncacheable mapping requests 2009-08-17 14:12:44 -07:00
kernel x86: Fix vSMP boot crash 2009-08-26 10:13:17 +02:00
kvm KVM: MMU: limit rmap chain length 2009-08-06 12:06:54 +03:00
lguest lguest: update commentry 2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
lib x86, msr: execute on the correct CPU subset 2009-08-03 14:48:13 -07:00
math-emu
mm xen: make -fstack-protector work under Xen 2009-09-09 16:37:39 -07:00
oprofile x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon 2009-07-10 05:22:50 +02:00
pci x86/pci: insert ioapic resource before assigning unassigned resources 2009-07-10 13:03:14 -07:00
power x86: Fix resume from suspend when CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 2009-07-08 13:20:13 +02:00
vdso gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 2009-06-18 13:03:58 -07:00
video
xen xen: only enable interrupts while actually blocking for spinlock 2009-09-09 16:38:11 -07:00
Kbuild
Kconfig perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback 2009-08-12 14:12:49 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" 2009-06-11 00:32:00 +02:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures 2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Makefile kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core 2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu