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Message-ID: <20090611232517.GA32486@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:25:17 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, mark.langsdorf@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] cpumask: avoid playing with cpus_allowed in
powernow-k8.c
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:59:58PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
>
> It's generally a very bad idea to mug some process's cpumask: it could
> legitimately and reasonably be changed by root, which could break us
> (if done before our code) or them (if we restore the wrong value).
>
> I did not replace powernowk8_target; it needs fixing, but it grabs a
> mutex (so no smp_call_function_single here) but Mark points out it can
> be called multiple times per second, so work_on_cpu is too heavy.
This one clashes with some diffs I merged earlier in cpufreq.git.
Can you rebase on top of that please?
(The other two were fine).
Otherwise, they all look ok to me. As long as they survive testing I
see no reason not to push them for .31.
Thanks,
Dave
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