[patch] turn on might_sleep() in early bootup code too
Zwane Mwaikambo
zwane at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Jan 19 15:39:14 EST 2006
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> lock_cpu_hotplug() has design problems i think: hotplug-locked sections
> are slowly spreading in the kernel, encompassing more and more code :-)
> Shouldnt the CPU hotplug lock be a spinlock to begin with?
The way it's used certainly is bizarre, but a spinlock would be harder to
work with as a lot of the code protected by it sleep.
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