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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lktdm: Bring support for hardlockup, softlockup and hung task crashes
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 14:46:03 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100516104603.GF5133@lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100516103506.GD5306@nowhere>

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:35:08PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
...
> > Looks good to me. Btw perhaps we may simplify it a bit:
> > 
> > 	case HARDLOCKUP:
> > 		local_irq_disable();
> > 	case SOFTLOCKUP:
> > 		preempt_disable();
> > 		for (;;)
> > 			cpu_relax();
> > 		break;
> > 
> > since it'll save a few bytes. What do you think? Did I miss
> > something?
> 
> 
> It would make the code a bit less clear in that people
> might stick on the reason to disable preemption after disabling
> irq, especially with a code that already does something rather
> unusual ;)
> 

ok, convinced

	-- Cyrill

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-16 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-16  5:39 [PATCH] lktdm: Bring support for hardlockup, softlockup and hung task crashes Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-16  9:36 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-16 10:35   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-16 10:46     ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]

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