linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/70] cpu: Restructure FROZEN state handling

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Message-ID: <20140723135009.GA21707@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:50:09 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/70] cpu: Restructure FROZEN state handling

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 09:58:37PM -0400, Chen, Gong wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> There are only a few callbacks which really care about FROZEN
> vs. !FROZEN. No need to have extra states for this.
> 
> Publish the frozen state in an extra variable which is updated under
> the hotplug lock and let the users interested deal with it w/o
> imposing that extra state checks on everyone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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