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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	shaohua.li@intel.com, lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] SMP: Implement on_one_cpu()
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:43:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaejl68hh7.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11800086152009-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> (Avi Kivity's message of "Thu, 24 May 2007 15:10:12 +0300")

I don't see any documented restrictions about preemption being
disabled when this function is called, but...

 > +int on_one_cpu(int cpu, void (*func) (void *info), void *info,
 > +	       int retry, int wait)
 > +{
 > +	int ret;
 > +	int this_cpu;
 > +
 > +	this_cpu = get_cpu();

what if a preempt and reschedule to a different CPU happens right
here, after this_cpu is set?

 > +	if (this_cpu == cpu) {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 12:10 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Suspend and cpu hotplug fixes Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 1/7] HOTPLUG: Add CPU_DYING notifier Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 2/7] HOTPLUG: Adapt cpuset hotplug callback to CPU_DYING Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 3/7] HOTPLUG: Adapt thermal throttle " Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 4/7] SMP: Implement on_one_cpu() Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 13:36   ` [kvm-devel] " Heiko Carstens
2007-05-24 13:42     ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 13:43   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-05-24 13:48     ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: Keep track of which cpus have virtualization enabled Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM: Tune hotplug/suspend IPIs Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:10 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: Use CPU_DYING for disabling virtualization Avi Kivity
2007-05-24 12:53 ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Suspend and cpu hotplug fixes Avi Kivity
2007-05-25  1:10 ` Shaohua Li
2007-05-25  8:28   ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-27 10:20     ` Avi Kivity

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