Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: ftrace: Ensure code modifications are synchronised across all cpus | From | "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <> | Date | Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:40:12 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 10:28 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I'm not NACKing your previous patch, I was just suggesting to bring ARM > up to the future :-)
ARM is the future ;-)
> > I have no problems with the patch, but I just want to put it out there > that there's better ways. It's part of the remove stomp_machine() > crusade ;-)
Indeed, when I first cam across stop_machine(), I though 'yuck!', especially when I realised Linux scheduling seems to mean the system goes idle until the the next tick triggers scheduling of these 'highest priority' threads.
-- Tixy
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