Hi!
> > This sounds wrong to me. Shouldn't the the effect of hotunplugging a cpu be to
> > put the driver in a state equivalent to if that cpu simply didn't exist?
> > Unplugging shouldn't assume we're going to subsequently have either a driver
> > suspend, or a replug.
>
> This is my biggest problem or maybe my complete lack of understanding, is
> that I don't know how to determine what state I am in during a hotplug
Basically you can't/shouldn't determine that.
> I thought it would make more sense if a few more states were to the
> hotplug event list. For example, in addition to CPU_ONLINE and CPU_DEAD,
> there could also be something like CPU_SUSPEND, CPU_FREEZE, CPU_RESUME,
> and CPU_THAW.
>
> Anyway, I am probably complicating the matter. I'll whip something up and
> post it for review.
I think you are overcomplicating this. Just forget about
suspend/resume, and reinit cpus from the scratch each time. It may
lead into some 'interesting' behaviour if someone tries to suspend
while profiling, but I believe we can live with that.
Pavel
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