From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761359AbYBLGoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:44:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755267AbYBLGoG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:44:06 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33048 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754613AbYBLGoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:44:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:44:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080211.224436.174153780.davem@davemloft.net> To: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Cc: maxk@qualcomm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, pj@sgi.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, gregkh@suse.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [git pull for -mm] CPU isolation extensions (updated2) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200802121741.22201.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> References: <47B11C45.6060408@qualcomm.com> <200802121741.22201.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:21 +1100 > stop machine is used for more than just module loading and unloading. > I don't think you can just disable it. Right, in particular it is used for CPU hotplug.