Rafael,
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Say we've taken all of them offline and now we are ready to eject. If an
> online from sysfs (or any other place) comes in at this point, we'll be
> ejecting a CPU that's potentially doing something which is not awesome.
>
> That's why we have device_hotplug_lock and some ugly code related to it.
>
> It extends to parents and children somewhat because of device objects
> representing packages (we want those to be "offline" only if all their
> children are offline) and that's why the lock is held around offline from
> sysfs too.
>
> I'm not entirely happy with this for quite obvious reasons, but it gets
> the job done ATM.
Understood. I'll fix that thing up so that won't happen and I put it on the
list of things to look at deeper.
Thanks,
tglx
