Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush_workqueue()

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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:31:07AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But before we do much more of this we should have a wrapper.  Umm
> 
> static inline void block_cpu_hotplug(void)
> {
> 	preempt_disable();
> }

Nack.

This will only block cpu down, not cpu_up and hence is a misnomer. I would be 
vary of ignoring cpu_up events totally in writing hotplug safe code.

-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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