Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752159AbaBKRlw (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:41:52 -0500 Received: from g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.64]:36006 "EHLO g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487AbaBKRlu (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:41:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1392140115.5612.135.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/51] CPU hotplug: Provide lockless versions of callback registration functions From: Toshi Kani To: ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , "paulus@samba.org" , "oleg@redhat.com" , "rusty@rustcorp.com.au" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mingo@kernel.org" , "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "tj@kernel.org" , "walken@google.com" , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:35:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20140211171805.GA3932@in.ibm.com> References: <20140205220251.19080.92336.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <20140205220447.19080.9460.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <1392081980.5612.123.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <52F9ED11.5010800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1392136436.5612.131.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <20140211171805.GA3932@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5 (3.8.5-2.fc19) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 22:48 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:33:56AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > > I agree that introducing a reader-writer semaphore allows concurrent > > executions. Adding yet another hotplug lock is a bit unfortunate, > > though. > > > > I agree with this last part. We already have enough locks for > cpu-hotplug. Another one sounds one too many!! > > > > This may be a dumb question, but can't we simply do this way? > > > > get_online_cpus(); > > > > for_each_online_cpu(cpu) > > init_cpu(cpu); > > > > put_online_cpus(); > > > -------- Someone chooses to hotplug a cpu here ------ > -------- But this subsystem might miss out on knowing > about it since it hasn't registered its > notifier yet! > > > register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); How about this? foo_cpu_notifier returns NOP when foo_notifier_ready is false. register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) init_cpu(cpu); foo_notifier_ready = true; put_online_cpus(); Thanks, -Toshi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/