Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:42:33 -0700 | From | Srivatsa Vaddagiri <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Reorganize the cpufreq cpu hotplug locking to not be totally bizare |
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:42:34PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > As a quick hack I made non-lock_cpu_hotplug()'ing versions of the 3 key > workqueue functions (patch below). It works, it's correct, it's just so > ugly that I'm almost too ashamed to post it. I haven't found a better > solution yet though... time to take a step back I suppose.
My worry is that such special cases might be needed in more places as we discover further or as code evolves. Fundamentally looks like the locked and unlocked paths of the kernel cannot be separated so well because of interaction between subsystems. /me thinks rwsem seems to be a sane thing to go after.
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