netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 29/45] x86/xen: Use get/put_online_cpus

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:59:22 +0530
From:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 29/45] x86/xen: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to
 prevent CPU offline

On 02/19/2013 11:40 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:10:51PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able to
>> depend on preempt_disable() or local_irq_disable() to prevent CPUs from
>> going offline from under us.
>>
>> Use the get/put_online_cpus_atomic() APIs to prevent CPUs from going offline,
>> while invoking from atomic context.
>>
>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> 
> Weird. I see this in the patch but I don't see it in the header?

Meaning, you didn't get this email at all?

> Did you
> explicitly suppress the CC part?
> 

No.. I sent the entire patchset to a set of email ids and in addition to
that I CC'ed individual patches to the respective maintainers/lists (the
CC: list in the changelog). I used the --auto knob from stgit to do that.

> 
> Anyhow, the patch looks sane enough, thought I need to to run it through
> a test framework just to be on a sure side.
>

Sure, thank you. But you might want to test the v6 that I sent out
yesterday instead of v5. Oh, wait a min, you didn't get the v6 mail also?

Here it is, for your reference:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136119260122255&w=2

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

>> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
>> Cc: x86@...nel.org
>> Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
>> Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
>> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---

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