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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	trenn@novell.com, prarit@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	youquan.song@intel.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] x86, mtrr: lock stop machine during MTRR rendezvous sequence
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:05:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308819905.1022.70.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622222043.862589370@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:20 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +       /*
> +        * If we are not yet online, then there can be no stop_machine() in
> +        * parallel. Stop machine ensures this by using get_online_cpus().
> +        *
> +        * If we are online, then we need to prevent a stop_machine() happening
> +        * in parallel by taking the stop cpus mutex.
> +        */
> +       if (cpu_online(raw_smp_processor_id()))
> +               mutex_lock(&stop_cpus_mutex);
> +#endif 

This reads like an optimization, is it really worth-while to not take
the mutex in the rare offline case?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22 22:20 [patch 0/4] MTRR rendezvous deadlock fix and cleanups using stop_machine() Suresh Siddha
2011-06-22 22:20 ` [patch 1/4] x86, mtrr: lock stop machine during MTRR rendezvous sequence Suresh Siddha
2011-06-23  9:05   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-06-23  9:33     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-06-23  9:41       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-23 18:16       ` Suresh Siddha
2011-06-22 22:20 ` [patch 2/4] stop_machine: reorganize stop_cpus() implementation Suresh Siddha
2011-06-22 22:20 ` [patch 3/4] stop_machine: implement stop_machine_from_offline_cpu() Suresh Siddha
2011-06-23  9:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-23  9:28     ` Tejun Heo
2011-06-23  9:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-23 18:19     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-06-24  7:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-24 17:55         ` Suresh Siddha
2011-06-22 22:20 ` [patch 4/4] x86, mtrr: use stop_machine() for doing MTRR rendezvous Suresh Siddha

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