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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 5/5] acpi_processor: do not mark present at boot but not onlined CPU as onlined
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On Thursday, April 10, 2014 07:14:21 PM Igor Mammedov wrote:
> acpi_processor_add() assumes that present at boot CPUs
> are always onlined, it is not so if a CPU failed to become
> onlined.

What do you mean by that? What *exactly* is the failure scenario?

> As result acpi_processor_add() will mark such CPU
> device as onlined in sysfs and following attempts to
> online/offline it using /sys/device/system/cpu/cpuX/online
> attribute will fail.
>
> Do not poke into device internals in acpi_processor_add()
> and touch "struct device { .offline }" attribute, since
> for CPUs onlined at boot it's set by:
> topology_init() -> arch_register_cpu() -> register_cpu()
> before ACPI device tree is parsed, and for hotplugged
> CPUs it's set when userspace onlines CPU via sysfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c | 3 ---
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> index c29c2c3..d56e4b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> @@ -403,9 +403,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_add(struct acpi_device *device,
> if (result)
> goto err;
>
> - pr->dev = dev;

The line above has to stay as is.

> - dev->offline = pr->flags.need_hotplug_init;
> -
> /* Trigger the processor driver's .probe() if present. */
> if (device_attach(dev) >= 0)
> return 1;
>

--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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