Re: [patch V3 12/20] powerpc/ps3: Convert half completion to rcuwait

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Hi,

On 3/21/20 4:25 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The PS3 notification interrupt and kthread use a hacked up completion to
> communicate. Since we're wanting to change the completion implementation and
> this is abuse anyway, replace it with a simple rcuwait since there is only ever
> the one waiter.
> 
> AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads
> cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use
> TASK_IDLE instead.

I tested the patch set applied against v5.6-rc7 on the PS3 and it worked
as expected.

Tested by: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>




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