On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 02:33 -0700, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:20 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote: > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP > > > + /* > > > + * If we are not yet online, then there can be no stop_machine() > > > in > > > + * parallel. Stop machine ensures this by using get_online_cpus(). > > > + * > > > + * If we are online, then we need to prevent a stop_machine() > > > happening > > > + * in parallel by taking the stop cpus mutex. > > > + */ > > > + if (cpu_online(raw_smp_processor_id())) > > > + mutex_lock(&stop_cpus_mutex); > > > +#endif > > > > This reads like an optimization, is it really worth-while to not take > > the mutex in the rare offline case? > > You cannot block on a mutex when you are not online, in fact you > cannot block on it when not active, so the check is wrong anyway. >
Ok. Thanks for educating me on that. Here we are neither online nor active. So we should be ok. But to be safe, I changed the online checks to active checks and updated the above comment also in the new revision. thanks, suresh _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
