> 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.
Could you use an rcu-like sequence so that disabling pre-emption
would be enough?
Something like rebuilding the cpu list, then forcing yourself
to run on all the cpu.
That would be far less intrusive.
David
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