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    [PATCH] slab: extended cpu notifiers · 706489d8
    Andrew Morton authored
    Patch from Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
    
    This is Manfred's patch which provides a CPU_UP_PREPARE cpu notifier to
    allow initialization of per_cpu data just before the cpu becomes fully
    functional.
    
    It also provides a facility for the CPU_UP_PREPARE handler to return
    NOTIFY_BAD to signify that the CPU is not permitted to come up.  If
    that happens, a CPU_UP_CANCELLED message is passed to all the handlers.
    
    The patch also fixes a bogus NOFITY_BAD return from the softirq setup
    code.
    
    Patch has been acked by Rusty.
    
    We need this mechanism in slab for starting per-cpu timers and for
    allocating the per-cpu slab hgead arrays *before* the CPU has come up
    and started using slab.
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