From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753907Ab2LESwe (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:52:34 -0500 Received: from e28smtp06.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.6]:46848 "EHLO e28smtp06.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751996Ab2LESwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:52:32 -0500 Message-ID: <50BF979A.50304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:21:06 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" CC: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, namhyung@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, tj@kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, sbw@mit.edu, amit.kucheria@linaro.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs for "light" atomic readers to prevent CPU offline References: <20121205184041.3750.64945.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <20121205184258.3750.31879.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <50BF96DF.3000500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <50BF96DF.3000500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12120518-9574-0000-0000-000005A0A93B Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Replaying what Oleg wrote: Hi, Sorry I don't understand the context and I can't find this thread anywhere, so I am not sure I understand... > Replaying what Tejun wrote: > So, we basically need percpu_rwlock. We already have percpu_rwsem. Yes, and with -mm patches it becomes reader-friendly. In particular see http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=135240650828875 > Oleg, it seems > CPU hotplug needs big-reader rwlock, ideas on how to proceed? > I am going to convert get_online_cpus() to use percpu_down_read(), this looks simple. We already discussed this with Paul, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135248463226031 and the whole thread. In short, all we need is percpu_down_write_recursive_readers() and afaics the only complication is lockdep, we need down_read_no_lockdep() which (like __up_read) doesn't do rwsem_acquire_read(). Oleg.