From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e28smtp06.in.ibm.com (e28smtp06.in.ibm.com [122.248.162.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e28smtp06.in.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 185D52C0299 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:20:07 +1100 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp06.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:46:51 +0530 Received: from d28relay05.in.ibm.com (d28relay05.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.62]) by d28dlp02.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431A13940057 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:50:00 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (d28av01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.63]) by d28relay05.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r1QFJvqF29556748 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:49:58 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av01.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r1QFJvNo028938 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:20:00 GMT Message-ID: <512CD20A.3020100@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:47:30 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/46] percpu_rwlock: Implement the core design of Per-CPU Reader-Writer Locks References: <20130218123714.26245.61816.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <20130218123856.26245.46705.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <5122551E.1080703@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <51226B46.9080707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <51226F91.7000108@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512BBAD8.8010006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michel Lespinasse , mingo@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, namhyung@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Lai Jiangshan , netdev@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, sbw@mit.edu, tj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 02/26/2013 07:04 PM, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat > wrote: >> Hi Lai, >> >> On 02/25/2013 09:23 PM, Lai Jiangshan wrote: >>> Hi, Srivatsa, >>> >>> The target of the whole patchset is nice for me. >> >> Cool! Thanks :-) >> >>> A question: How did you find out the such usages of >>> "preempt_disable()" and convert them? did all are converted? >>> >> >> Well, I scanned through the source tree for usages which implicitly >> disabled CPU offline and converted them over. > > How do you scan? could you show the way you scan the source tree. > I can follow your instructions for double checking. > Its nothing special. I grepped the source tree for anything dealing with cpu_online_mask or its derivatives and also for functions/constructs that rely on the cpumasks internally (eg: smp_call_function). Then I audited all such call-sites and converted them (if needed) accordingly. >> Its not limited to uses >> of preempt_disable() alone - even spin_locks, rwlocks, local_irq_disable() >> etc also help disable CPU offline. So I tried to dig out all such uses >> and converted them. However, since the merge window is open, a lot of >> new code is flowing into the tree. So I'll have to rescan the tree to >> see if there are any more places to convert. > > I remember some code has such assumption: > preempt_disable() (or something else) > //the code assume that the cpu_online_map can't be changed. > preempt_enable() > > It is very hard to find out all such kinds of assumptions and fixes them. > (I notice your code mainly fixes code around send_xxxx()) > The conversion can be carried out using the method I mentioned above. Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat