From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932183Ab2CUJMS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:12:18 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46379 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122Ab2CUJMR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:12:17 -0400 Message-ID: <1332321124.18960.471.camel@twins> Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix the race between smp_call_function and CPU booting From: Peter Zijlstra To: "Liu, Chuansheng" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Yanmin Zhang , "tglx@linutronix.de" Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:12:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A05B485@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> References: <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A053BE8@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1331546307.18960.26.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A054D70@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1331654251.18960.78.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A0556FA@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1331718197.18960.106.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A056F47@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1331808391.18960.160.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A05806B@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1331891364.18960.221.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A058AAE@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1332151397.18960.252.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A05A6BF@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <1332245842.18960.413.camel@twins> <27240C0AC20F114CBF8149A2696CBE4A05B485@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 05:59 +0000, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: > Could you consider the advice that setting the active just after set > online? Not until I understand why the current stuff explodes, also see fd8a7de17 setting active after online can re-introduce that problem. Which ever way I need to clean up some archs since there's all kind of broken in there.