Re: 回复: [PATCH] debugobjects: install cpu hotplug callback

[Waiman Long]

On 8/25/20 7:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25 2020 at 18:26, Waiman Long wrote:
> > On 8/25/20 12:53 AM, Zhang, Qiang wrote:
> > > When a cpu going offline, we should free objects in "percpu_obj_pool"
> > > free_objs list which corresponding to this cpu.
> > The percpu free object pool is supposed to be accessed only by that
> > particular cpu without any lock. Trying to access it from another cpu
> > can cause a race condition unless one can make sure that the offline cpu
> > won't become online in the mean time.
> It is actually safe because CPU hotplug is globally serialized and there
> is no way that an offline CPU will come back from death valley
> magically. If such a zombie ever surfaces then we have surely more
> serious problems than accessing that pool :)

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't looked into where the callback 
functions are being called so I am not 100% sure.

Cheers,
Longman