Re: [PATCH] prevent ia64 from invoking irq handlers on offline CPUs

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> > @@ -751,6 +749,7 @@ int __cpu_disable(void)
>> >        remove_siblinginfo(cpu);
>> >        cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_online_map);

Here ^^^

>> >        fixup_irqs();
>> > +       cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_online_map);
>> >        local_flush_tlb_all();
>> >        cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_callin_map);
>> >        return 0;
>>
>> Hm. Maybe my eyes are going bad. But isn't that now clearing the cpu
>> both before and after calling fixup_irqs()?
>
> I don't believe so...  I removed the earlier one and added the later
> one.  Or is there another one hidden somewhere that I missed?

See marker above. It's not removed, is it?


Vegard

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