Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2020 09:35:20 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Deadlock due to "cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous" |
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 02:07:26PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: > On 04/06/20 10:34, Tejun Heo wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:55:23AM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: > > > What would be the right approach to get a fix in then? We have been skipping > > > this test for a while and we'd like to enable it but this failure is a > > > blocking issue. > > > > Update the test so that it accounts for the async nature of the operation? > > With a sleep() between the hp ops and the read? Isn't this a nasty hack?
Some operations are just async. Why is that inherently wrong?
> I was just trying to find out what can be done for 5.7. But based on your > response this is sadly a dead end. For no reason I can comprehend.
Because it's creating real issues while trying to address a non-real problem. It's dumb. Fix the non-real part.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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