On 04/22/2013 07:24 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 13:41 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
>> From: Jesse Larrew <jlar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> Platform events such as partition migration or the new PRRN firmware
>> feature can cause the NUMA characteristics of a CPU to change, and these
>> changes will be reflected in the device tree nodes for the affected
>> CPUs.
>>
>> This patch registers a handler for Open Firmware device tree updates
>> and reconfigures the CPU and node maps whenever the associativity
>> changes. Currently, this is accomplished by marking the affected CPUs in
>> the cpu_associativity_changes_mask and allowing
>> arch_update_cpu_topology() to retrieve the new associativity information
>> using hcall_vphn().
>>
>> Protecting the NUMA cpu maps from concurrent access during an update
>> operation will be addressed in a subsequent patch in this series.
> 
> I see no more mention of stop_machine() ... is the patch subject stale ?
> 

Nope, just me mistakenly putting the wrong subject for this patch. I'll
correct it in the next version.

-Nathan

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