Hi Vineet, Just noticed that in comments for smp_call_function_many() it is said that preemption must be disabled during its execution. And that function gets executed among other ways like that: -------------------------->8----------------------- flush_tlb_range() -> on_each_cpu_mask() -> smp_call_function_many() -------------------------->8----------------------- I'm not seeing right now any real problem with current implementation but some architectures do that thus the question. -Alexey