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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]broadcast IPI race condition on CPU hotplug
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:21:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050426132149.GF5098@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114482044.7068.17.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:20:44AM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote:
> Hi,
> After a CPU is booted but before it's officially up (set online map, and
> enable interrupt), the CPU possibly will receive a broadcast IPI. After
> it's up, it will handle the stale interrupt soon and maybe cause oops if
> it's a smp-call-function-interrupt. This is quite possible in CPU
> hotplug case, but nearly can't occur at boot time. Below patch replaces
> broadcast IPI with send_ipi_mask just like the cluster mode.

No way we are making this common operation much slower just
to fix an obscure race at boot time. PLease come up with a fix
that only impacts the boot process.

Thanks,
-Andi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26  2:20 Li Shaohua
2005-04-26  4:25 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-26  4:24   ` Li Shaohua
2005-04-26  4:47     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-26  5:17       ` Li Shaohua
2005-04-26 13:21 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-04-27  1:00   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-27  1:11   ` Li Shaohua
2005-04-27 12:56     ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-28  3:15       ` Li Shaohua

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