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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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2009/2/3 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:
>
> * akpm@linux-foundation.org <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Subject: work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand
>> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>
>> The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu()
>> are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some
>> form.
>>
>> Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one
>> work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback
>> also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock.
>>
>> Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu()
>> invokation.
>>
>> This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is
>> pci_call_probe().
>
> hm, it's quite ugly as well, and wasteful with resources.


Sorry I don't see the patch but only the changelog.
So perhaps my answer will be a bit out of sync.

But if pci_call_probe() is the only caller, so it is supposed to be
called only on boot.
Perhaps the work_on_cpu thread can be killed after boot up and then
become a thread created
on the fly after that if needed....

Or perhaps it's too much complex.....