linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Avoid unnecessary reallocations of memory allocated in cpu hotplug prepare state

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:02:09 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     zhe.he@...driver.com
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com,
        jolsa@...nel.org, jolsa@...hat.com, kan.liang@...ux.intel.com,
        mingo@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Avoid unnecessary reallocations of
 memory allocated in cpu hotplug prepare state

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:30:33PM +0800, zhe.he@...driver.com wrote:
> Besides, in preempt-rt full mode, the freeing can happen in atomic context and
> thus cause the following BUG.

Hurm, I though we fixed all those long ago..

And no, the patch is horrible; that's what we have things like
x86_pmu::cpu_dead() for.