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!"
prev parent 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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