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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic-ipi: fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:42:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100926084233.GA28809@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100910172805.a4fe5c7f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Maybe.  Or maybe it papers over a scheduler bug by gratuitously adding 
> additional code which no present callsites actually need.

Hm, indeed.

We now have the scheduler bug fixed upstream. Do we really need this 
patch?

> The patch didn't update the __smp_call_function_single() kerneldoc. 
> Compare it with smp_call_function_single() and note the subtle 
> difference between "a specific CPU" and the now incorrect "on another 
> CPU".

In any case this feedback didnt get addressed AFAICS.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-26  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-09 13:50 [PATCH] generic-ipi: fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single Heiko Carstens
2010-09-10 11:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-10 11:23   ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-10 11:47     ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-10 15:47       ` [tip:core/urgent] generic-ipi: Fix " tip-bot for Heiko Carstens
2010-09-11  0:28   ` [PATCH] generic-ipi: fix " Andrew Morton
2010-09-11  9:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-11 16:42       ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-09-13  8:08         ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-13 18:02         ` Suresh Siddha
2010-09-14  8:03           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-14 11:19             ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-17 22:12               ` Suresh Siddha
2010-09-18 15:18                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 14:13           ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix nohz balance kick tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-09-26  8:42     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-09-26 12:59       ` [PATCH] generic-ipi: fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single Heiko Carstens
2010-09-26 16:23         ` Ingo Molnar

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