On Wednesday 17 October 2007 15:37:54 Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:47:41AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 October 2007 20:34:17 Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> > > This patch implements a Refcount + Waitqueue based model for
> > > cpu-hotplug.
> >
> > Hi Gautham,
>
> Hi Rusty,
>
> > 	I can't see where you re-initialize the completion.
>
> The cpu_hotplug.readers_done is a global variable which has been
> initialized in cpu_hotplug_init.
>
> So I am wondering is the re-initialization required ?

Yes.  AFAICT you use this completion on every hotplug.  Yet once a completion 
is completed, it needs to be re-initialized to be reused: it's "complete" and 
wait_for_completion will return immediately thereafter.

Perhaps you want a waitqueue instead?

Rusty.
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