Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Avoid unnecessary reallocations of memory allocated in cpu hotplug prepare state

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2018-12-18 12:02:09 [+0100], Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:30:33PM +0800, zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Besides, in preempt-rt full mode, the freeing can happen in atomic context and
> > thus cause the following BUG.
> 
> Hurm, I though we fixed all those long ago..
> 
> And no, the patch is horrible; that's what we have things like
> x86_pmu::cpu_dead() for.

ehm, you say we keep memory allocation +free on CPU up/down?

Sebastian