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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] stop_machine: simplify
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On Thursday 10 July 2008 10:30:37 Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads. We can
> > create those threads directly and simplify things a little. Some care
> > must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code
> > seems more robust than it was in the past.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> Rusty,
>
> You mentioned (in private conversation) that you were going to add some
> logic that checks whether CPU is running user-space code and not holding
> any locks to avoid scheduling stop_machine thread on it. Was it supposed
> to be part of this patch ?
>
> Max

No... I tried it, and it killed my machine. I didn't chase it for the moment,
but it's on the "experimental" end of my patch queue.

Will play with it again and report,
Rusty.






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