[PATCH powerpc ] Avoid debug_smp_processor_id() check in arch_spin_unlock_wait()
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jan 25 08:44:49 EST 2013
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 18:13 +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> I'm not very clear about the "risk" you mentioned above. It seems to me
> that the freeing of lppaca only appeared in free_unused_pacas(), called
> by early setup code, at which time hotplug seems impossible.
>
> I must missed something ...
No you are right, we don't free them at the moment.
> I'll update the SHARED_PROCESSOR directly, it seems better to me now.
> (wonder why I gave it up immediately when it first came into my mind
> while I was doing the last update...)
Cheers,
Ben.
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