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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] CPU hotplug: active_writer not woken up in some cases - deadlock
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 01:26:19AM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 12/09, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > Would wait_event()/wake_up() work for the wakeup-writer case?
>
> Yes, and in this case we could probably kill this puts_pending logic
> and avoid cpu_hotplug.lock in put_online_cpus() altogether? Can't we
> just make cpu_hotplug.refcount atomic_t?

Seems like that should be possible. That would certainly simplify the
wakeup logic from put_online_cpus(). It might even be possible to
avoid acquiring cpu_hotplug.lock in put_online_cpus(), though that
would of course require more luck than anyone deserves.

> Anyway, this makes me think again that this code should use percpu_rwsem.
> Perhaps I'll try to make a patch next week...
>
> (we need down_write_recursive_readers(), and probably rcusync patches).

Careful! You might end up re-introducing the deadlock that I used
puts_pending to get rid of. ;-)

Thanx, Paul



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