Re: getting processor numbers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 05:40:32 EST



* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But we don't need tasklist_lock at all, we can use
> rcu_read_lock/unlock. Q: don't we need task_rq_lock() to read
> ->cpus_allowed "atomically" ?

right now ->cpus_allowed is protected by tasklist_lock. We cannot do RCU
here because ->cpus_allowed modifications are not RCUified.

Ingo
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