RE: [OOPS] hotplugging cpus via /sys/devices/system/cpu/

["Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

>
>On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:41:58PM -0700, Christopher Beppler wrote:
>>
>>    [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>>    If I deactivate a CPU with /sys/devices/system/cpux and try to
>>    reactivate it, then the CPU doesn't start and the kernel prints
out an
>>    oops.
>>
>
>Could you try this on 2.6.13-mm2? If this is due to a sending broadcast
>IPI related issue that should fix the problem.
>
>I should say i didnt try i386 in a while
>but i suspect some of the recent suspend/resume code required some
>modifications to the i386 hotplug code which might be getting in the
way
>if you just try logical cpu hotplug alone without using it for
>suspend/resume.
>
>Shaohua might know more about the status.
Sorry for the long delay, I missed this email (Ashok misspelled my email
address :)). The sysfs interface works for me. And please note I didn't
do status clear/__init call cleanup for non-intel CPU, as I haven't any
machine with non-intel CPUs here to test.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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