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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"trenn@novell.com" <trenn@novell.com>,
	"prarit@redhat.com" <prarit@redhat.com>,
	"tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Song, Youquan" <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] stop_machine: enable __stop_machine() to be called from the cpu online path
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:42:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEE712F.3080800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307471902.21608.4476.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>

On 06/07/2011 11:38 AM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 
> This is kind of a false positive. We are just checking if the calling
> cpu is online/offline (and there is no possible process migration
> between an online and offline cpu).
> 

Is the state not available in a percpu variable of some sort?  If not,
shouldn't it be rather than indirecting via a CPU number?

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-07 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-06 23:16 [patch 0/2] enhance stop machine infrastructure for MTRR rendezvous sequence Suresh Siddha
2011-06-06 23:16 ` [patch 1/2] stop_machine: enable __stop_machine() to be called from the cpu online path Suresh Siddha
2011-06-07  0:19   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, stop_machine: Enable " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-06-07 18:02   ` [patch 1/2] stop_machine: enable " Ingo Molnar
2011-06-07 18:38     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-06-07 18:42       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-06-07 19:12         ` Suresh Siddha
2011-06-06 23:16 ` [patch 2/2] x86, mtrr: use __stop_machine() for doing MTRR rendezvous Suresh Siddha
2011-06-07  0:19   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, mtrr: Use " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha

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