Commit 7c7165c9 authored by Chandra Seetharaman's avatar Chandra Seetharaman Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix hotplug cpu documentation for proper usage

Update hotplug cpu documentation to clearly state when to use
register_cpu_notifier() and register_hotcpu_notifier.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 8c78f307
......@@ -251,16 +251,24 @@ A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications.
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
static struct notifier_block foobar_cpu_notifer =
static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata foobar_cpu_notifer =
{
.notifier_call = foobar_cpu_callback,
};
You need to call register_cpu_notifier() from your init function.
Init functions could be of two types:
1. early init (init function called when only the boot processor is online).
2. late init (init function called _after_ all the CPUs are online).
In your init function,
For the first case, you should add the following to your init function
register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
For the second case, you should add the following to your init function
register_hotcpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
You can fail PREPARE notifiers if something doesn't work to prepare resources.
This will stop the activity and send a following CANCELED event back.
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