Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: coupled: fix sleeping while atomic in cpu notifier | | Date | Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:15:06 +0200 |
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On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Colin Cross wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Colin Cross wrote: > >> The cpu hotplug notifier gets called in both atomic and non-atomic > >> contexts, it is not always safe to lock a mutex. Filter out all events > >> except the six necessary ones, which are all sleepable, before taking > >> the mutex. > > > > I wonder what mutual exclusion mechanis we rely on when the mutex is not taken? > > We don't need any mutual exclusion because the notifier returns immediately.
Don't we need to disable preemption even?
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