On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:17:56PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 02:43:46PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Make sure the nocb timer can't fire anymore before we reach the final > > de-offload state. Spuriously waking up the GP kthread is no big deal but > > we must prevent from executing the timer callback without nocb locking. > > If we had just the previous patch and not this patch, would things break? > Or are you relying on the fact that there is not yet a connection to > userspace controls for this functionality?
Exactly it shouldn't break because only the last patch makes the code eventually used. Thanks.