[PATCH v5 14/45] rcu, CPU hotplug: Fix comment referring to stop_machine()

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun Feb 10 14:43:04 EST 2013


On 02/09/2013 05:44 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:06:34PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> Don't refer to stop_machine() in the CPU hotplug path, since we are going
>> to get rid of it. Also, move the comment referring to callback adoption
>> to the CPU_DEAD case, because that's where it happens now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Ouch!  That comment is indeed obsolete and must die.
> 
> I queued this to -rcu with your Signed-off-by.  However, I omitted
> the added comment, as it is imcomplete -- it is easy to look at
> rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() to see what it does.
>

Cool! I'll drop it from my patch series then. Thank you!

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat




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