Re: [PATCH 4/7] SMP: Implement on_one_cpu()

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Roland Dreier wrote:
I don't see any documented restrictions about preemption being
disabled when this function is called, but...

 > +int on_one_cpu(int cpu, void (*func) (void *info), void *info,
 > +	       int retry, int wait)
 > +{
 > +	int ret;
 > +	int this_cpu;
 > +
 > +	this_cpu = get_cpu();

what if a preempt and reschedule to a different CPU happens right
here, after this_cpu is set?

 > +	if (this_cpu == cpu) {

get_cpu() disables preemption (the return value would be meaningless otherwise).


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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