Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs for "light" atomicreaders to prevent CPU offline

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

On 12/07/2012 03:32 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 01:06 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> The root-cause of this deadlock is again lock-ordering mismatch right?
>> CPU0 takes locks in order A, B
>> CPU1 takes locks in order B, A
>>
>> And the writer facilitates in actually getting deadlocked.
>>
>> I avoid this in this patchset by always taking the locks in the same
>> order. So we won't be deadlocking like this.
> 
> OK, I haven't looked closely at the patch yet. I'm currently hacking on
> my own problems. But just from the description above, it looked like you
> were using rw_locks() to be able to inverse the order of the locks.
> 

Ah, ok, no problem! I'd be grateful if you could take a look when you
are free :-) I'll post a v3 soon, which has a completely redesigned
synchronization scheme, to address the performance concerns related to
global rwlocks that Tejun raised.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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