Re: [PATCH v5 07/45] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs to prevent CPU offline from atomic context

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Tue Jan 29 2013 - 05:21:31 EST


Hi Srivatsa,

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:04:54 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> @@ -246,15 +291,21 @@ struct take_cpu_down_param {
> static int __ref take_cpu_down(void *_param)
> {
> struct take_cpu_down_param *param = _param;
> - int err;
> + unsigned long flags;
> + int err = 0;

It seems no need to set 'err' to 0.

Thanks,
Namhyung

> +
> + percpu_write_lock_irqsave(&hotplug_pcpu_rwlock, &flags);
>
> /* Ensure this CPU doesn't handle any more interrupts. */
> err = __cpu_disable();
> if (err < 0)
> - return err;
> + goto out;
>
> cpu_notify(CPU_DYING | param->mod, param->hcpu);
> - return 0;
> +
> +out:
> + percpu_write_unlock_irqrestore(&hotplug_pcpu_rwlock, &flags);
> + return err;
> }
>
> /* Requires cpu_add_remove_lock to be held */
>
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