Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:59:38 +0530
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       rml@tech9.net
Subject: Re: CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:37:01AM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> If a CPU gets yanked with no warning, where do we
> run the signal handler?  Violating affinity again.

With the current CPU Hotplug design, I don't think this is allowed.
A CPU has to be offlined first in software before it is yanked out
from hardware.

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Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
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