On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> Here is a crude attempt fix race the way suggested by Greg,
> probably done wrong but hopefully in the right direction.

Weird, I thought I had tried that at first but got tons of kobject
warnings and such. But I think I tried to add it to kset instead of
the one you did.

It fixes it for me so
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>

and also (thought the git commit descriptions need a bit of work,
but that is expected as an RFC patch):
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
> 
> 1. move "crash_notes" to static attributes to guarantee that it's
> destroyed with CPU on unregister.
> 
> 2. fixes race between hotplugged CPU and onlining it via udev, described here
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/193
> 
> Igor Mammedov (2):
>   cpu: fix crash_notes leak
>   cpu: make sure that cpu/online file created before KOBJ_ADD is
>     emitted
> 
>  drivers/base/cpu.c |   55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
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