[PATCH] ARM: ftrace: Ensure code modifications are synchronised across all cpus

Jon Medhurst (Tixy) tixy at linaro.org
Fri Dec 7 10:40:12 EST 2012


On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 10:28 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I'm not NACKing your previous patch, I was just suggesting to bring ARM
> up to the future :-)

ARM is the future ;-)

> 
> I have no problems with the patch, but I just want to put it out there
> that there's better ways. It's part of the remove stomp_machine()
> crusade ;-)

Indeed, when I first cam across stop_machine(), I though 'yuck!',
especially when I realised Linux scheduling seems to mean the system
goes idle until the the next tick triggers scheduling of these 'highest
priority' threads.

-- 
Tixy




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