On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:41:53PM -0500, Hardik H Bagdi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand why stop_machine() is necessary for > cpu_down() operation. Great! But you might want to ask this on a linux kernel specific mailing list. This is for the old linux hotplug scripts :) Perhaps linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and cc: the proper kernel developers who work in this area? good luck! greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html