Re: PATCH: Fix race in cpu_down (hotplug cpu)

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 17:56:26 EST


Hi.

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:37, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Thanks for the confirmation Ingo. This is part of my "cleanup resched
> and cpu_idle" patch FYI. It should already be in -mm, but has some
> trivial EM64T bug in it that Andrew hits but I can't reproduce.
>
> I'll dust it off and send it out, hopefully someone will be able to
> reproduce the problem!

I got on the same page eventually :). When you have it ready, I'll be
happy to try it. Apart from trying another 75 suspends (which I'm happy
to do), I'm not really sure how we can be totally sure that the patch
fixes it. Do you have any thoughts in this regard?

Regards,

Nigel


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