Re: Kernel panic in "subr_xcall.c"

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:48:46PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> Indeed; the only problem I found with this patch is that the function 
> will not be called by the bound xc_thread of the CPU, but rather 
> directly (different from a call to xc_lowpri() for a specific CPU).

Yes, indeed. But I couldn't think of way to avoid that in this situation.
I tried to make it as safe as possible by calling the function without
holding the mutex.

> If you think that pushing the solution deeper is cleaner, I am not 
> against it, on the contrary.

I would hope that it avoids problems like the one in "subr_pool.c"
in the future.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/