Re: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: allow pcpu_alloc() to be called with IRQsoff

[Ingo Molnar]

* Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > pcpu_alloc() and pcpu_extend_area_map() perform a series of
> > spin_lock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq() calls, which make them unsafe
> > with respect to being called from contexts which have IRQs off.
> > 
> > This patch converts the code to perform save/restore of flags instead,
> > making pcpu_alloc() (or __alloc_percpu() respectively) to be called
> > from early kernel startup stage, where IRQs are off.
> > 
> > This is needed for proper initialization of per-cpu rq_weight data from
> > sched_init().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'll wait for response on the series and push it through percpu#fixes 
> tomorrow if there's no objection.

Yep, the 2/2 sched.c patch looks good now:

  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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