Re: [PATCH 00/12] Convert cpu_up/down to device_online/offline

2019-11-18 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Qais Yousef wrote: > I had to make an educated guess that you're probably the 'maintainer' of cpu > hotplug - but there's no explicit entry that says that. Please let me know if > I need to bring the attention of others too. :) > The series do have few rough edges to

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Convert cpu_up/down to device_online/offline

2019-11-18 Thread Qais Yousef
Hi Thomas On 10/30/19 15:38, Qais Yousef wrote: > Using cpu_up/down directly to bring cpus online/offline loses synchronization > with sysfs and could suffer from a race similar to what is described in > commit a6717c01ddc2 ("powerpc/rtas: use device model APIs and serialization > during LPM"). >

[PATCH 00/12] Convert cpu_up/down to device_online/offline

2019-10-30 Thread Qais Yousef
Using cpu_up/down directly to bring cpus online/offline loses synchronization with sysfs and could suffer from a race similar to what is described in commit a6717c01ddc2 ("powerpc/rtas: use device model APIs and serialization during LPM"). cpu_up/down seem to be more of a internal implementation