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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] ARM: smp: Fix the CPU hotplug race with scheduler.
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:50:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110620095053.GA2082@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308561839-18407-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:53:59PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> The current ARM CPU hotplug code suffers from couple of race conditions
> in CPU online path with scheduler.
> The ARM CPU hotplug code doesn't wait for hot-plugged CPU to be marked
> active as part of cpu_notify() by the CPU which brought it up before
> enabling interrupts.

Hmm, why not just move the set_cpu_online() call before notify_cpu_starting()
and add the wait after the set_cpu_online() ?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20  9:23 [RFC PATCH] ARM: smp: Fix the CPU hotplug race with scheduler Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20  9:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-06-20 10:14   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 10:28     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 10:35       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 10:45         ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 11:42           ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 10:44       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 10:47         ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 11:13           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 11:25             ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 11:40               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 11:51                 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 12:19                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 12:27                     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 12:57                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 14:23                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 14:54                   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-20 15:01                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 15:10                       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-21  9:08                     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-21 10:00                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-21 10:17                         ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-21 10:19                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-21 10:21                             ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-06-21 10:26                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-21 20:16                                 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-06-21 23:10                                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-22  0:06                                     ` Stephen Boyd
2011-06-22 10:06                                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-20 10:19   ` Santosh Shilimkar

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