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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()
On 05/04/2010 08:36 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 05/03/2010 03:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 18:09 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> +static int cpu_stopper_thread(void *data)
>>> +{
>>> + struct cpu_stopper *stopper = data;
>>
>> BUG_ON(stopper != __get_cpu_var(cpu_stopper)); ?
>
> Added.

Now that I think more about it, there's a subtle race condition with
the above BUG_ON(). Stoppers are prepared by CPU_UP_PREPARE and
started by CPU_ONLINE but brought down by CPU_DEAD. IOW, they're
allowed to run detached from their designated CPUs between CPU_DYING
and CPU_DEAD (the reponsibility of guaranteeing target cpus's onliness
is on the callers). So, the above BUG_ON() might trigger spuriously
if a cpu goes down after brought online before its cpu_stopper had a
chance to pass through the BUG_ON() test.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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