linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/13] workqueue: Provide work_on_cpu

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Message-ID: <20170414041803.GA13899@wtj.duckdns.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:18:03 +0900
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] workqueue: Provide work_on_cpu_safe()

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:07:28PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> work_on_cpu() is not protected against CPU hotplug. For code which requires
> to be either executed on an online CPU or to fail if the CPU is not
> available the callsite would have to protect against CPU hotplug.
> 
> Provide a function which does get/put_online_cpus() around the call to
> work_on_cpu() and fails the call with -ENODEV if the target CPU is not
> online.
> 
> Preparatory patch to convert several racy task affinity manipulations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun