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From: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	arjan@linux.intel.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full()
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:33:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341797610.2439.3.camel@ThinkPad-T420> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpXhgqOQcD1s9O2weQv8xqfZ6Jpc4atR+QSosrYocbCK-Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 17:12 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >  void async_synchronize_full(void)
> >  {
> > -       do {
> > -               async_synchronize_cookie(next_cookie);
> > -       } while (!list_empty(&async_running) || !list_empty(&async_pending));
> > +       async_synchronize_cookie_domain(next_cookie, NULL);
> >  }
> 
> A nitpick:
> 
>  async_synchronize_cookie_domain(next_cookie, NULL);
> 
> equals to
> 
>  async_synchronize_full_domain(NULL)
> 

Why do we need one more level in the function calling stack? 


      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02  6:04 [PATCH] Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full() Li Zhong
2012-07-06  3:51 ` Christian Kujau
2012-07-09  1:30   ` Li Zhong
2012-07-06  9:12 ` Cong Wang
2012-07-09  1:33   ` Li Zhong [this message]

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