On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:59:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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	 so its not like new tasks will ever get this cpu set in
+	 * their mm mask. -- Peter Zijlstra
+	 * Thus, we may use rcu_read_lock() here, instead of grabbing
+	 * full-fledged tasklist_lock.
+	 */
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for_each_process(p) {
+		struct task_struct *t;
+
+		t = find_lock_task_mm(p);
+		if (!t)
+			continue;
+		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(t->mm));
+		task_unlock(t);
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}

It is good that this code exists under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.  Did you
check that everything works correctly with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n?

Yeah, only the code under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU calls the function, so
it should be all fine.

Thanks!

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Anton Vorontsov
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