Hello, again. On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:57:24AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > possible. Also, I think the right approach would be auditing each > get_online_cpus_atomic() callsites and figure out proper locking order > rather than implementing a construct this unusual especially as > hunting down the incorrect cases shouldn't be difficult given proper > lockdep annotation.
On the second look, it looks like you're implementing proper percpu_rwlock semantics as readers aren't supposed to induce circular dependency directly. Can you please work with Oleg to implement proper percpu-rwlock and use that for CPU hotplug rather than implementing it inside CPU hotplug? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/
