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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	ashok.raj@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]CPU hotplug breaks wake_up_new_task
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:10:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050531104055.GA9908@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <429C3265.4010704@yahoo.com.au>

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:46:13PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> And this patch will break balance-on-fork.

Right :-)

> How about conditionally setting task_cpu if the task's current
> CPU is offline?

Something like this?

--- kernel/fork.c.org	2005-05-31 14:57:15.000000000 +0530
+++ kernel/fork.c	2005-05-31 16:06:41.000000000 +0530
@@ -1024,7 +1024,8 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon
 	 * parent's CPU). This avoids alot of nasty races.
 	 */
 	p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed;
-	if (unlikely(!cpu_isset(task_cpu(p), p->cpus_allowed)))
+	if (unlikely(!cpu_isset(task_cpu(p), p->cpus_allowed) ||
+		     !cpu_online(task_cpu(p))))
 		set_task_cpu(p, smp_processor_id());
 
 	/*



-- 


Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-31 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-31  7:35 [PATCH]CPU hotplug breaks wake_up_new_task Shaohua Li
2005-05-31  8:00 ` Ashok Raj
2005-05-31  8:35   ` Shaohua Li
2005-05-31  8:50     ` Nick Piggin
2005-05-31  9:11       ` Shaohua Li
2005-05-31  9:08         ` Nick Piggin
2005-05-31  9:40 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-05-31  9:46   ` Nick Piggin
2005-05-31 10:40     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2005-05-31 10:49       ` Nick Piggin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-31 11:41 Li, Shaohua

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