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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] cpuset: convert cpuset_attach() to use cpumask_var_t
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:21:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4961D10B.5040106@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105011414.176a5ee3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

>>> OK, that works.
>>>
>>> Do we need to dynamically allocate cpus_attach?  Can we just do
>>>
>>> static cpumask_t cpus_attach;
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>> Yes, it's used by cpuset_attach() only, and cpuset_attach() is called with
>> cgroup_lock() held, so it won't happen that 2 threads access cpus_attach
>> concurrently.
> 
> You misunderstand my question.  I think.
> 
> Can we allocate cpus_attach at compile time?  Completely, not
> partially.  By doing
> 
> static cpumask_t cpus_attach;
> 
> instead of
> 
> static cpumask_var_t cpus_attach;
> ...
> 	alloc_cpumask_var(&cpus_attach, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> ?

Ah, I misunderstood. Yes a static cpumask_t works, but what Mike Travis and
Rusty is doing is to remove cpumask_t completely, and replace cpumask_t
with cpumask_var_t wherever possible.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31  8:34 [PATCH 0/6] cpuset: convert to new cpumask API Li Zefan
2008-12-31  8:35 ` [PATCH 1/6] cpuset: remove on stack cpumask_t in cpuset_sprintf_cpulist() Li Zefan
2008-12-31  8:35   ` [PATCH 2/6] cpuset: remove on stack cpumask_t in cpuset_can_attach() Li Zefan
2008-12-31  8:36     ` [PATCH 3/6] cpuset: convert cpuset_attach() to use cpumask_var_t Li Zefan
2008-12-31  8:36       ` [PATCH 4/6] cpuset: don't allocate trial cpuset on stack Li Zefan
2008-12-31  8:37         ` [PATCH 5/6] cpuset: convert cpuset->cpus_allowed to cpumask_var_t Li Zefan
2008-12-31  8:37           ` [PATCH 6/6] cpuset: remove remaining pointers to cpumask_t Li Zefan
2009-01-05  7:46         ` [PATCH 4/6] cpuset: don't allocate trial cpuset on stack Andrew Morton
2009-01-05  9:13           ` Li Zefan
2009-01-05  7:38       ` [PATCH 3/6] cpuset: convert cpuset_attach() to use cpumask_var_t Andrew Morton
2009-01-05  8:47         ` Li Zefan
2009-01-05  9:01           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-05  9:04             ` Li Zefan
2009-01-05  9:14               ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-05  9:21                 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-01-07  2:04             ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-07 16:39           ` Paul Menage
2008-12-31 11:56 ` [PATCH 0/6] cpuset: convert to new cpumask API Mike Travis
2008-12-31 13:26 ` Rusty Russell

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