Re: [PATCH 3/2] fix flush_workqueue() vs CPU_DEAD race
From: Gautham R Shenoy
Date: Wed Jan 03 2007 - 23:37:29 EST
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:26:57PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> I thought that these patches don't depend on each other, flush_work/workueue
> don't care where cpu-hotplug takes workqueue_mutex, in CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE or in
> CPU_UP_PREPARE case (or CPU_DEAD/CPU_LOCK_RELEASE for unlock).
>
> Could you clarify? Just curious.
You are right. They don't depend on each other.
The intention behind introducing CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE
was to have a standard place where the subsystems could acquire/release
the "cpu hotplug protection" mutex in the cpu_hotplug callback function.
The same can be acheived by acquiring these mutexes in
CPU_UP_PREPARE/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE etc.
This is true for every subsystem that is cpu-hotplug aware.
> Oleg.
>
Thanks and Regards
gautham.
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Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
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