[PATCH v5 14/45] rcu, CPU hotplug: Fix comment referring to stop_machine()
Paul E. McKenney
paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Feb 8 19:14:39 EST 2013
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:06:34PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> Don't refer to stop_machine() in the CPU hotplug path, since we are going
> to get rid of it. Also, move the comment referring to callback adoption
> to the CPU_DEAD case, because that's where it happens now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Ouch! That comment is indeed obsolete and must die.
I queued this to -rcu with your Signed-off-by. However, I omitted
the added comment, as it is imcomplete -- it is easy to look at
rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() to see what it does.
Thanx, Paul
> ---
>
> kernel/rcutree.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> index e441b77..ac94474 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> @@ -2827,11 +2827,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
> break;
> case CPU_DYING:
> case CPU_DYING_FROZEN:
> - /*
> - * The whole machine is "stopped" except this CPU, so we can
> - * touch any data without introducing corruption. We send the
> - * dying CPU's callbacks to an arbitrarily chosen online CPU.
> - */
> for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp)
> rcu_cleanup_dying_cpu(rsp);
> rcu_cleanup_after_idle(cpu);
> @@ -2840,6 +2835,10 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
> case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
> case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
> case CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN:
> + /*
> + * We send the dead CPU's callbacks to an arbitrarily chosen
> + * online CPU.
> + */
> for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp)
> rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu(cpu, rsp);
> break;
>
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