Thread (67 messages) 67 messages, 11 authors, 2013-06-25

Re: [PATCH 31/45] alpha/smp: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline

From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-06-23 17:51:10
Also in: linux-alpha, linux-arch, linux-pm, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat
[off-list ref] wrote:
Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able
to depend on disabling preemption to prevent CPUs from going offline
from under us.

Use the get/put_online_cpus_atomic() APIs to prevent CPUs from going
offline, while invoking from atomic context.

Also, remove the non-ASCII character present in this file!
It's not non-ASCII. It's a page break.
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