On tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:52:34 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:55:13AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
>> So, how about warn once, and continue:
>> if (cpu == dying) {
>> WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu == dying);
>> continue;
>> }
>>
>> or, use BUG_ON() instead ?
>
> Let me ask you again, but I want you to think real hard this time:
>
> "Why do we need to warn? What good would that bring us?"
>
This function is called after a cpu is offline, in other words, it is
impossible that the cpu is still in cpu_online_mask. otherwise there is
something wrong in the code.
Thanks
Miao
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