Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:30:37 -0700 | From | Max Krasnyansky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] stop_machine: simplify |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads. We can > create those threads directly and simplify things a little. Some care > must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code > seems more robust than it was in the past. > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty,
You mentioned (in private conversation) that you were going to add some logic that checks whether CPU is running user-space code and not holding any locks to avoid scheduling stop_machine thread on it. Was it supposed to be part of this patch ?
Max
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