From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com (e7.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e7.ny.us.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F5892C008A for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:35:55 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:35:52 -0400 Received: from d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (d01relay05.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.237]) by d01dlp01.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9253E38C805C for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:35:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (d03av06.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.245]) by d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r5QEZnhf289708 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:35:49 -0400 Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r5QEar7f023290 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:36:55 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:34:24 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: David Laight Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/45] rcu: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Message-ID: <20130626143424.GN3828@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20130625202452.16593.22810.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <20130625202755.16593.67819.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <20130625220026.GG3828@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <51CAF624.6060004@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, walken@google.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rostedt@goodmis.org, namhyung@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sbw@mit.edu, "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , tj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 03:29:40PM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able > > to depend on disabling preemption to prevent CPUs from going offline > > from under us. > > Could you use an rcu-like sequence so that disabling pre-emption > would be enough? > > Something like rebuilding the cpu list, then forcing yourself > to run on all the cpu. > > That would be far less intrusive. It would also increase the latency of CPU-hotunplug operations. Thanx, Paul