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SubjectRe: [patch] Reorganize the cpufreq cpu hotplug locking to not be totally bizare
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I wonder if we could just make the workqueue code just run with preemption
> disabled - that should also automatically protect against any CPU hotplug
> events on the local CPU (and I think "local CPU" is all that the wq code
> cares about, no?)

__create_workqueue(), destroy_workqueue() and flush_workqueue() are all
taking CPU hotplug lock currently. AFAICS they all can block and so
disabling preemption wont work. What am I missing?

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