Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:29:39 +1100 |
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In message <20040121070844.GA31807@hockin.org> you write: > Process A has now discarded useful potentially VALUABLE information, with no > way to retrieve it. The hot plug scripts do not have enough information to > put things the way they were before. I can't believe that anyone considers > this to be OK.
We already established that the process which cares has to listed to hotplug events.
Userland should handle it *before* telling the kernel to remove the CPU. What we're dealing with here is merely a corner case, IMHO worth neither hysteria nor a great deal of code.
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