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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug

* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> It really is just like a reentrant rw semaphore... I don't see the
> point of the name change, but I guess we don't like reentrant locks so
> calling it something else might go down better with Linus ;)

what would fit best is a per-cpu scalable (on the read-side)
self-reentrant rw mutex. We are doing cpu hotplug locking in things like
fork or the slab code, while most boxes will do a CPU hotplug event only
once in the kernel's lifetime (during bootup), so a classic global
read-write lock is unjustified.

Ingo
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