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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	Kernel-Maillist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	cl@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] rcu:  use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper instead of per_cpu_ptr(p, raw_smp_processor_id())
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:35:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031133539.GY3027@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50912593.8050305@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:20:19PM +0800, Shan Wei wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney said, at 2012/10/31 19:51:
> > 
> > The first uses smp_processor_id(), which will complain if
> > force_quiescent_state() is called with preemption disabled, which it
> > sometimes is.
> > 
> > So what am I missing here?
> 
> Hi Paul
> 
> this patch is not right for CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT case.
> __this_cpu_ptr is ok which do not check for preemption context.

Ah, got it.  Please feel free to submit an updated patch.

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-31 11:23 [PATCH 7/9] rcu: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper instead of per_cpu_ptr(p, raw_smp_processor_id()) Shan Wei
2012-10-31 11:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-31 13:20   ` Shan Wei
2012-10-31 13:35     ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-10-31 17:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-31 20:08   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-01  9:09     ` Shan Wei
2012-11-01 14:32       ` Christoph Lameter

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