Re: [PATCH v5 tip/core/rcu 15/16] rcu: Make RCU-tasks wait for idle tasks

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:43:32AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> o	drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c, power_saving_thread().
> 
> 	Looks like a kthread that does idle injection.  Currently, RCU
> 	sees it as not a quiescent state.  Would it kill these guys to
> 	put in a comment or two about what this is for???
> 
> 	So adding rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() here might
> 	actually fix a bug, though it is not clear how long this thing
> 	actually runs.  If only for a few milliseconds, no harm done.
> 

> o	drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c, clamp_thread().
> 
> 	Looks similar to power_saving_thread(), but for thermal control.
> 	Probably short term, shouldn't be a problem either way.
> 

There's patches somewhere that make that go-away

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/56

Jacob was going to look at that.

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