Re: 2.6.8.1-mm4 - more cpu hotplug breakage

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 09:09, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> My apologies if this is getting annoying, but it occurred to me that any
> user of stop_machine_run is broken similarly... which means that
> unloading a module will also hang your machine.  I have verified this on
> 2.6.8.1-mm4 on ppc64.

My apologies for not responding earlier.

I've been chasing this, and I realized that both my previous patch and
the one in -mm4 are broken.  They fix the case where we release_task
ourselves, then a CPU goes down, but not the case where our parent
release_tasks us and the CPU goes down.

The correct fix is for the hotplug CPU code to scan the dead CPU's
runqueue as well, and migrate those.

I'll patch soon,
Rusty.
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