On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 12:34:14AM +0530, pawandeep oza wrote:
> no this is not a generic code bug, because only in this scenerio, problem
> might happen.
> because other core is plugged out and now there is no chance that it can
> release the spin_lock it would have held previously.
>
> so this core must run with preemption and interrupt disabled.
>
> this is only applicable for shutdown, not for any other scenerio.
No. See my reply I just sent. Preempting when local interrupts
disabled is a bug.
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