Okay, got you. Thanks a lot! Harry On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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