Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not update sysfs cpu registration from invalid context

From: Nathan Fontenot <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:25:59 -0500

On 06/24/2013 02:16 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:18:04PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:14:23AM -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
>>> The topology update code that updates the cpu node registration in sysfs
>>> should not be called while in stop_machine(). The register/unregister
>>> calls take a lock and may sleep.
>>>
>>> This patch moves these calls outside of the call to stop_machine().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by:Nathan Fontenot <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings <[email-masked]>
> 
> Gah! I _knew_ I should have waited for my cross compiler to finish
> building.  This thing doesn't build:
> 
>   CC      arch/powerpc/mm/numa.o
> /home/sjennings/ltc/linux/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c: In function 'arch_update_cpu_topology':
> /home/sjennings/ltc/linux/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:1486: error: 'update' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /home/sjennings/ltc/linux/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:1486: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> /home/sjennings/ltc/linux/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:1486: error: for each function it appears in.)
> 
> s/update/ud/ in the *_cpu_under_node() calls.

Oops! Time for patch submission re-education training.

New, and correct, patch coming soon.

-Nathan