2012/11/15 Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>: > If we are in nohz and there's still irq_work to be done when the idle > task is about to go offline. Give a nasty warning. > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> > > Index: linux-rt.git/kernel/irq_work.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-rt.git.orig/kernel/irq_work.c > +++ linux-rt.git/kernel/irq_work.c > @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ bool irq_work_needs_cpu(void) > if (llist_empty(this_list)) > return false; > > + /* All work should have been flushed before going offline */ > + WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id()));
Should we return false in that case? I don't know what can happen if we wait for one more tick while the CPU is offline and apic is deactivated. > + > return true; > } > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
