[PATCH 0/4] Unify CPU hotplug lock interface

Toshi Kani toshi.kani at hp.com
Tue Aug 20 00:54:14 EST 2013


On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 03:02 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, August 17, 2013 01:46:55 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> > lock_device_hotplug() was recently introduced to serialize CPU & Memory
> > online/offline and hotplug operations, along with sysfs online interface
> > restructure (commit 4f3549d7).  With this new locking scheme,
> > cpu_hotplug_driver_lock() is redundant and is no longer necessary.
> > 
> > This patchset makes sure that lock_device_hotplug() covers all CPU online/
> > offline interfaces, and then removes cpu_hotplug_driver_lock().
> > 
> > The patchset is based on Linus's tree, 3.11.0-rc5.
> 
> Nice series, thanks a lot for taking care of this!

Thanks Rafael!
-Toshi



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