Re: linux-next 20111025: warnings inrcu_idle_exit_common()/rcu_idle_enter_common()

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 10:51:52AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 07:44 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > rcu: Fix idle-task checks
> > 
> > RCU has traditionally relied on idle_cpu() to determine whether a given
> > CPU is running in the context of an idle task, but recent changes have
> > invalidated this approach.  This commit therefore switches from idle_cpu
> > to "current->pid != 0".
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> I always knew you had a split personality Paul ;)

Ah, but which is the Good Paul and which is the Evil Paul?  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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