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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier transitions

From David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier transitions
Date 2016-04-04 18:40 +0200
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On 04/04/16 17:21, Julien Grall wrote:
> (CC Stefano new e-mail address)
> 
> Hello Anna-Maria,
> 
> On 04/04/2016 13:32, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote:
>> Xen guests do not offline/online CPUs during suspend/resume and
>> therefore FROZEN notifier transitions are not required. Add this
>> explanation as a comment in the code to get not confused why
>> CPU_TASKS_FROZEN masked transitions are not considered.

Alternatively, these could be added even if they are not encountered.
This might be more future-proof but the documentation might be clearer.

Boris, Juergen, any opinion?

David>> --- a/drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c
>> @@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ static int evtchn_fifo_cpu_notification(
>>       int cpu = (long)hcpu;
>>       int ret = 0;
>>
>> +    /*
>> +     * Xen guests do not offline/online CPUs during
>> +     * suspend/resume, thus CPU_TASKS_FROZEN masked transitions
>> +     * are not considered.
>> +    */
> 
> NIT: The '*' is not aligned with the others.

If this doesn't need any other changes, I'll fix this on commit.

David

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[PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier transitions Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-04 14:40 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> - 2016-04-04 18:30 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2016-04-04 18:40 +0200
      Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-04-04 18:50 +0200
        Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-04-05 06:30 +0200
          Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2016-04-07 02:00 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net> - 2016-04-06 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PREEMPT-RT] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing  FROZEN notifier transitions Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-06 16:10 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Add comment for missing FROZEN notifier  transitions Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2016-04-07 02:00 +0200

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