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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc/softirqs: only show state for online cpus
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:52:38 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2E7246.6050204@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM2zO=CxriXK4bqGbwhfkfdgSpGwe1mAJE=6cYpDAf0Hxji0sQ@mail.gmail.com>

>> Offtopic, /proc/interrupt should be protected by get_online_cpus().
>> Otherwise the header (i.e. cpu number) and the actual statistics fields
>> can be mismatched likes following. Am I missing something?
> 
> I think you are right. The reader could be preempted by cpu hotplug.
> 
> After searching the whole tree, only s390 take cpu_hotplug.lock,
> but its usage is not currect:
> 
> arch/s390/kernel/irq.c:
> int show_interrupts(struct seq_file *p, void *v)
> {
>           get_online_cpus();
>           .........
>           put_online_cpus();
> }
> 
> Because the reader will call show_interrupts nr_irqs times.
> So get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() should be put upper,
> maybe interrupts_open(). How do you think about it?

I agree with you.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-25 13:10 [PATCH] proc/softirqs: only show state for online cpus Yong Zhang
2011-07-26  5:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-26  6:14   ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-26  6:38     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-26  7:29       ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-26  7:46         ` Keika Kobayashi
2011-07-26  7:56           ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-26  7:52         ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2011-07-26 16:34         ` Heiko Carstens
2011-07-27  2:41           ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-27  4:56           ` [PATCH 1/2] proc/insterrupts: make it cpu hotplug safe Yong Zhang
2011-07-27  4:56             ` [PATCH 2/2] [S390] irq: fix show_interrupts() vs cpu hotplug Yong Zhang
2011-07-27  6:06               ` Heiko Carstens
2011-07-27  5:20             ` [PATCH 1/2] proc/insterrupts: make it cpu hotplug safe KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-27  5:47               ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-27  5:55                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-27  6:05             ` Heiko Carstens

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