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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] x86:  Restore proper vector locking during cpu hotplug
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:51:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489F7F1D.3030606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11w0xu9hd.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Having cpu_online_map change during assign_irq_vector can result
> in some really nasty and weird things happening.  The one that
> bit me last time was accessing non existent per cpu memory for non
> existent cpus.
> 
> This locking was removed in a sloppy x86_64 and x86_32 merge patch.
> 
> Guys can we please try and avoid subtly breaking x86 when we are
> merging files together?

Queuing for tip:x86/urgent.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-10 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-09 22:09 [PATCH] [PATCH] x86: Restore proper vector locking during cpu hotplug Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-10 23:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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