Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:51:05 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RT 7/9][RFC] [PATCH 7/9] cpu/rt: Rework cpu down for PREEMPT_RT |
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 16:20 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Already queued. I'd say #4 is a bug fix as well, though I > > fundamentally hate the ass backwards semantics of that new function. > > It is a bug fix, but I don't like it either. Note, that the patch didn't > update the pin_current_cpu() code, which would have to be done too (to > be a full fix).
I know.
> But I was also thinking that as a work around, as we plan on changing > this code anyway. Instead of adding a new API which is ass backwards, > just encompass the cpu_hotplug.lock instead. Something like this:
Thought about that already. It's way less fugly.
Thanks,
tglx
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