linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/7] rcu: Remove comment referring to __stop

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Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:16:52 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, sbw@....edu,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/7] rcu: Remove comment referring to __stop_machine()

From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Although it used to be that CPU_DYING notifiers executed on the outgoing
CPU with interrupts disabled and with all other CPUs spinning, this is
no longer the case.  This commit therefore removes this obsolete comment.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcutree.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index b2fc234..71df6f9 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -2931,11 +2931,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
 		break;
 	case CPU_DYING:
 	case CPU_DYING_FROZEN:
-		/*
-		 * The whole machine is "stopped" except this CPU, so we can
-		 * touch any data without introducing corruption. We send the
-		 * dying CPU's callbacks to an arbitrarily chosen online CPU.
-		 */
 		for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp)
 			rcu_cleanup_dying_cpu(rsp);
 		rcu_cleanup_after_idle(cpu);
-- 
1.8.1.5

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