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From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...>
To: David Miller <davem@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <wli@...>, <sparclinux@...>, <manfred@...>, <akpm@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on offline CPUs
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 10:54 am

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:17:08PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

It turns out that there is a timer_cpu_modifier() that invokes
migrate_timers() upon CPU_DEAD or CPU_DEAD_FROZEN.  And migrate_timers()
looks like it does what its name says.  And I believe that CPU_DEAD
happens after sparc64's local_irq_enable() window, so we should be OK.

							Thanx, Paul
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[PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on offlin..., Paul E. McKenney, (Sun Aug 31, 1:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., David Miller, (Tue Sep 2, 8:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., Paul E. McKenney, (Tue Sep 2, 8:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., David Miller, (Wed Sep 3, 5:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., Paul E. McKenney, (Wed Sep 3, 11:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., David Miller, (Mon Sep 8, 8:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., Manfred Spraul, (Tue Sep 9, 2:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., David Miller, (Tue Sep 9, 3:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH] prevent sparc64 from invoking irq handlers on of..., Paul E. McKenney, (Tue Sep 9, 10:54 am)