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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel•org>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, daniel@iogearbox•net, edumazet@google•com,
	jannh@google•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, kernel-team@fb•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] bpf: fix lockdep false positive in percpu_freelist
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:21:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190130102126.GF2278@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190130040458.2544340-2-ast@kernel.org>

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:04:55PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 
> It has been explained that is a false positive here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/25/756

Please, no external references like that. The best option is to fully
include the explanation here so that a future software archeology
student (note, this might be yourself in a years time) can find all
relevant information in the git history.

Or, if you _really_ _really_ have to refer to external sources, use:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/${msg_id}

which is a controlled URL and can be made to point to any archive
(currently, and sadly, lore.kernel.org).

Also, since it includes the whole msg_id, people can trivially find the
email in their local archive.

While I agree that lkml.org is a _MUCH_ saner interface than lore (which
causes eye and brain cancer for just looking at it), it is a _really_
flaky website and the url contains no clues for finding it in the local
archive.

> Recap:
> - stackmap uses pcpu_freelist
> - The lock in pcpu_freelist is a percpu lock
> - stackmap is only used by tracing bpf_prog
> - A tracing bpf_prog cannot be run if another bpf_prog
>   has already been running (ensured by the percpu bpf_prog_active counter).

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30  4:04 [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] bpf: fixes for lockdep and deadlock Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30  4:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] bpf: fix lockdep false positive in percpu_freelist Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 10:21   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-01-30 19:27     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 19:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-30 20:18         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30  4:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] bpf: fix lockdep false positive in stackmap Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 10:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-30 19:30     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 19:42       ` Waiman Long
2019-01-30 20:10         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 21:11           ` Waiman Long
2019-01-30 21:32             ` Waiman Long
2019-01-31  2:01               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-31  2:48                 ` Waiman Long
2019-02-06  3:21                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-06  3:30                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-06  3:40                       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-01-30 19:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-30 20:05         ` Waiman Long
2019-01-30  4:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] bpf: fix lockdep false positive in bpf_prog_register Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 10:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-30 10:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-30 19:32     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30 19:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-30  4:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/4] bpf: Fix syscall's stackmap lookup potential deadlock Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-30  4:07 ` [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] bpf: fixes for lockdep and deadlock Alexei Starovoitov

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