Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 2 authors, 2011-11-30

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] cpuidle: (powerpc) Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow switching of idle routines

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2011-11-29 07:04:20
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On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:12 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
Yes, this could be problematic as there is small window for the
race condition to occur . Otherwise we need to manually schedule
it by running a kernel thread but this would definitely have a
overhead and would be an overkill. 
Depends what this "window" is. IE. What are you trying to protect
yourself against ? What's the risk ?

If it's just module unload, then stop_machine is probably your
friend :-)

Cheers,
Ben.
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