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Message-ID: <CAEdQ38HLzNoRABCUR7tEoBLJWn86xSd2VfSHxs0MPj5r5GvTXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:50:42 -0700
From:	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	mingo@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
	walken@...gle.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	sbw@....edu, fweisbec@...il.com, zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/45] alpha/smp: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to
 prevent CPU offline

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat
<srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able
> to depend on disabling preemption to prevent CPUs from going offline
> from under us.
>
> Use the get/put_online_cpus_atomic() APIs to prevent CPUs from going
> offline, while invoking from atomic context.
>
> Also, remove the non-ASCII character present in this file!

It's not non-ASCII. It's a page break.
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