Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] cpu-hotplug: Replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:22:02PM +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:

> Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
> get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights
> the refcount semantics in these operations.
> 
> The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation,
> but it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
> structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.
> 
> In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
> cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
> cpu_present_map there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt                |   11 ++++++-----
>  arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c             |   10 +++++-----

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

for the MIPS part.

  Ralf