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Re: [patch 1/4] hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during cpu up/down

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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > Prevent allocation and freeing of interrupt descriptors accross cpu
> > hotplug.
> 
> 
> This breaks Xen guests that allocate interrupt descriptors in .cpu_up().

And where exactly does XEN allocate those descriptors?
 
> Any chance this locking can be moved into arch code?

No.

> (The patch doesn't appear to have any side effects for the down path since Xen
> guests deallocate descriptors in __cpu_die()).
 
Exact place please.

Thanks,

	tglx
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Re: [patch 1/4] hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during  cpu up/down Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-07-14 16:50 +0200
  Re: [patch 1/4] hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during  cpu up/down Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-07-14 17:50 +0200
    Re: [patch 1/4] hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during  cpu up/down Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-07-14 18:10 +0200
      Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 1/4] hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors  during cpu up/down Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-07-14 22:10 +0200
        Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 1/4] hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq  descriptors during cpu up/down Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-07-14 22:20 +0200

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