Re: console_cpu_notify can cause scheduling BUG during CPU hotplug

From: Santosh Shilimkar
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 02:04:31 EST


On 4/26/2011 5:48 AM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Michael Bohan<mbohan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was curious if this scenario was accounted for in the design of the
console CPU notifier. One workaround for this problem is to remove CPU_DEAD
from the possible actions in console_cpu_notify(). In fact, v1-v4 of the
patch above did not have CPU_DEAD, CPU_DYING or CPU_DOWN_FAILED in the list
of actions. I wasn't able to track down why the other cases were added in
the final patch.

Here is the background information on the CPU_{DEAD,DYING,DOWN_FAILED} cases:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/29/65
That's right.
May be the change log for commit '034260d67' would have been
bit more descriptive about the CPU hot-plug events.

Regards
Santosh


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