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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: schlicht@uni-mannheim.de, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] fix preempt-issues with smp_call_function()
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:19:05 -0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226111905.GA32415@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030226015409.78e8e1fb.akpm@digeo.com>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:54:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > > Just one comment. You moved quite a few of the preempt_disable/enable
 > > pairs outside of the CONFIG_SMP checks.  The issue we're working against
 > > here is to try and prevent preemption and ending up on a different CPU.
 > > As this cannot happen if CONFIG_SMP=n, I don't see why you've done this.
 > Just in two places.

Ok, slight exaggeration 8-)  Looks good to me.

btw, (unrelated) shouldn't smp_call_function be doing magick checks
with cpu_online() ?

		Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-25 18:08 [PATCH][2.5] fix preempt-issues with smp_call_function() Thomas Schlichter
2003-02-26  9:27 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-26 10:37 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-26  9:54   ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-26 10:14     ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-02-26 11:19     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-02-26 10:28       ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-26 10:52         ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-02-26 11:28         ` Dave Jones
2003-02-26 13:39         ` Alan Cox
2003-02-26 18:47           ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-26 20:11             ` Alan Cox
2003-02-26 16:00         ` Martin J. Bligh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-21 14:20 [PATCH][2.5] replace flush_map() in arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c w ith flush_tlb_all() Dave Jones
2003-02-21 17:36 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-22  3:23   ` [PATCH][2.5] fix preempt-issues with smp_call_function() Thomas Schlichter

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