Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:59:06 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v3.3 |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:36:04PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:51:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Well, that depends. Anything you're actually accomplishing when you're > > optimising at that level is at the less than a milliwatt level.
> OK, good point.
> In the meantime, here are some alleged fixes for the corresponding bug in > the ARM tree. Some of these are "interesting" in the sense that RCU can > be used more deeply in the idle loop than I would believe to be safe, > for example, via locking->lockdep->RCU after some interesting pieces > of hardware have been shut off. I took my best guess and commented the > ones that I am least sure of.
> Thoughts? Other than I need to CC a cast of thousands? (I cannot break > this up without having git bisect points with busted RCU on ARM.)
Not really - I don't know ARM CPU side stuff in any detail, I mostly work on things external to the SoCs. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |