On 04/09/13 02:38, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:20:31AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>> So, how can I review these changes when all there is is a git URL, and >>> I *do* not want to pull them into my tree without first looking at the >>> patches, possibly reviewing them and *replying* with the patch inline? >> the patches were CC'ed to LKML and linux-arch and I expected that you >> are at least having the latter. Find the relevant patch inlined below. > I've not been on linux-arch for a few years now, after it evolved into > yet another lkml-like list with high traffic rates, where mainly specific > x86 issues seemed to be discussed, rather than it being a way to contact > all arch maintainers. > >> It is a counter. I looked carefully at all the various slightly >> differently fcked up implementations and picked the counter based one >> as it fits all requirements. > Great, thanks. The attached patch looks fine to me. I'm pretty sure that we need to apply this patch now that rcu_idle_enter()/exit() is called lower down in the idle loop. Kevin, did you test hotplug? ----8<----- From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: smp: Drop RCU_NONIDLE usage in cpu_die() Before f7b861b (arm: Use generic idle loop, 2013-03-21) ARM would kill the CPU within the rcu idle section. Now that the rcu_idle_enter()/exit() pair have been pushed lower down in the idle loop this is no longer true and so using RCU_NONIDLE here is no longer necessary and also harmful because RCU is not actually idle at this point. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c index 4619177..78f1eb5 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ void __ref cpu_die(void) mb(); /* Tell __cpu_die() that this CPU is now safe to dispose of */ - RCU_NONIDLE(complete(&cpu_died)); + complete(&cpu_died); /* * actual CPU shutdown procedure is at least platform (if not -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html