linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: use local_pci_probe when best selected cpu is offline

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Message-ID: <9bf241c5-68af-4471-a159-1c673243d80d@web.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:08:04 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Hongchen Zhang <zhanghongchen@...ngson.cn>,
 Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
 loongarch@...ts.linux.dev, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: use local_pci_probe when best selected cpu is
 offline

…
> This can be happen if a node is online while all its CPUs are offline
> (we can use "maxcpus=1" without "nr_cpus=1" to reproduce it), Therefore,
> in this case, we should call local_pci_probe() instead of work_on_cpu().

* Please take text layout concerns a bit better into account also according to
  the usage of paragraphs.
  https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10-rc3/source/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst#L128

* Please improve the change description with an imperative wording.
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.10-rc3#n94

* Would you like to add the tag “Fixes” accordingly?

* How do you think about to specify the name of the affected function
  in the summary phrase?

Regards,
Markus