cpu-hotplug: refcount based cpu hotplug
This patch implements a Refcount + Waitqueue based model for cpu-hotplug. Now, a thread which wants to prevent cpu-hotplug, will bump up a global refcount and the thread which wants to perform a cpu-hotplug operation will block till the global refcount goes to zero. The readers, if any, during an ongoing cpu-hotplug operation are blocked until the cpu-hotplug operation is over. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> [For !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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