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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] stop_machine: simplify
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:51:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807111751.14728.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4875582D.4040901@qualcomm.com>

On Thursday 10 July 2008 10:30:37 Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads.  We can
> > create those threads directly and simplify things a little.  Some care
> > must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code
> > seems more robust than it was in the past.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> Rusty,
>
> You mentioned (in private conversation) that you were going to add some
> logic that checks whether CPU is running user-space code and not holding
> any locks to avoid scheduling stop_machine thread on it. Was it supposed
> to be part of this patch ?
>
> Max

No... I tried it, and it killed my machine.  I didn't chase it for the moment, 
but it's on the "experimental" end of my patch queue.

Will play with it again and report,
Rusty.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-08  7:50 [PATCH 0/3] stop_machine enhancements and simplifications Rusty Russell
2008-07-08  7:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS option Rusty Russell
2008-07-08  7:56   ` [PATCH 2/3] stop_machine: simplify Rusty Russell
2008-07-08  8:01     ` [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine: use cpu mask rather than magic numbers Rusty Russell
2008-07-10 21:07       ` [PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop_machine use cpu mask vs ftrace Milton Miller
2008-07-11  6:43         ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-11  7:46         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-11  8:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-11 12:34           ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 11:44     ` [PATCH 2/3] stop_machine: simplify Akinobu Mita
2008-07-08 13:11       ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 15:02         ` Akinobu Mita
2008-07-09  2:18           ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 14:27     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-09  2:11       ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-09 12:42         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-10  0:30     ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11  7:51       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-07-11 13:12         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-12  5:07           ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 16:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] stop_machine enhancements and simplifications Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-08 20:10 ` Jason Baron
2008-07-09  3:29   ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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