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From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Refcount Based Cpu-Hotplug Revisit.
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:47:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071017041752.GA9940@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710161922430.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:23:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > 
> > Unless I am reading the patch wrongly, it seems cpu_hotplug_begin() is called 
> > while holding the cpu_add_remove_lock mutex. So, another CPU cannot come in
> > and do the same until _cpu_down() is over.
> 
> Ahh, in that case I take back that objection, although maybe a comment 
> about the required nesting within the other mutex is in order? Or maybe 
> it's there and I just missed it (blush).

Good point! I'll add the comment before cpu_hotplug_begin().


> 
> 			Linus

Thanks and Regards
gautham.
-- 
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
"Freedom comes with a price tag of responsibility, which is still a bargain,
because Freedom is priceless!"

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 10:33 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Refcount Based Cpu-Hotplug Revisit Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-16 10:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Refcount Based Cpu-Hotplug Implementation Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-17  0:47   ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-17  5:37     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-17  6:29       ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-18  6:29         ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-21 12:47       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-10-17 10:53   ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-17 11:27     ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-17 11:50       ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-17 12:04         ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-16 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug to get_online_cpus Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-17 16:13   ` Nathan Lynch
2007-10-18  7:57     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-18  8:22       ` Nathan Lynch
2007-10-18  8:59         ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-18 17:30           ` Nathan Lynch
2007-10-19  5:04             ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-22  0:43               ` Nathan Lynch
2007-10-22  4:51                 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-16 10:36 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] Replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-21 11:39   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-10-22  4:58     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-16 10:37 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] Remove CPU_DEAD/CPU_UP_CANCELLED handling from workqueue.c Gautham R Shenoy
2007-10-17 11:57   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-10-16 17:20 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Refcount Based Cpu-Hotplug Revisit Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17  2:11   ` Dipankar Sarma
2007-10-17  2:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17  4:17       ` Gautham R Shenoy [this message]

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