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Four queue nodes per CPU are allocated to enable up to 4 nesting levels using the per-CPU nodes. Nested NMIs are possible in some architectures. Still it is very unlikely that we will ever hit more than 4 nested levels with contention in the slowpath. When that rare condition happens, however, it is likely that the system will hang or crash shortly after that. It is not good and we need to handle this exception case. This is done by spinning directly on the lock using repeated trylock. This alternative code path should only be used when there is nested NMIs. Assuming that the locks used by those NMI handlers will not be heavily contended, a simple TAS locking should work out. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548798828-16156-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.