> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:15:45 +0530 Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 04:16:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > One quite different way of addressing all of this is to stop using
> > stop_machine_run() for hotplug synchronisation and switch to the swsusp
> > freezer infrastructure: all kernel threads and user processes need to stop
> > and park themselves in a known state before we allow the CPU to be removed.
> > lock_cpu_hotplug() becomes a no-op.
>
> Well ...you still need to provide some mechanism for stable access to
> cpu_online_map in blocking functions (ex: do_event_scan_all_cpus).
> Freezing-tasks/Resuming-them-after-hotp-unplug is definitely not one of them
> (when they resume, online_map would have changed under their feet).
Problems will only occur if a process is holding some sort of per-cpu state
across a call to try_to_freeze(). Surely nobody does that.
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