Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 18:47:14 -0700
From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
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        linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] cpu: Introduce clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() helper
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:59:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> > 	 so its not like new tasks will ever get this cpu set in
> > +	 * their mm mask. -- Peter Zijlstra
> > +	 * Thus, we may use rcu_read_lock() here, instead of grabbing
> > +	 * full-fledged tasklist_lock.
> > +	 */
> > +	rcu_read_lock();
> > +	for_each_process(p) {
> > +		struct task_struct *t;
> > +
> > +		t = find_lock_task_mm(p);
> > +		if (!t)
> > +			continue;
> > +		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(t->mm));
> > +		task_unlock(t);
> > +	}
> > +	rcu_read_unlock();
> > +}
> 
> It is good that this code exists under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.  Did you
> check that everything works correctly with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n?

Yeah, only the code under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU calls the function, so
it should be all fine.

Thanks!

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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