On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 19:08 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> The current CPU offline code uses stop_machine() internally. And disabling
> preemption prevents stop_machine() from taking effect, thus also preventing
> CPUs from going offline, as a side effect.
>
> There are places where this side-ef
The current CPU offline code uses stop_machine() internally. And disabling
preemption prevents stop_machine() from taking effect, thus also preventing
CPUs from going offline, as a side effect.
There are places where this side-effect of preempt_disable() (or equivalent)
is used to synchronize with
