linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] cpufreq: Don't destroy/realloc policy/sysfs on hotplug/suspend

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:48:00 -0700
From:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>,
	"Srivatsa S . Bhat" <srivatsa@....edu>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] cpufreq: Don't destroy/realloc policy/sysfs on
 hotplug/suspend

On 07/31/2014 02:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, July 24, 2014 06:07:26 PM Saravana Kannan wrote:
>> This patch simplifies a lot of the hotplug/suspend code by not
>> adding/removing/moving the policy/sysfs/kobj during hotplug and just leaves
>> the cpufreq directory and policy in place irrespective of whether the CPUs
>> are ONLINE/OFFLINE.
>
> I'm still quite unsure how this is going to work with the real CPU hot-remove
> that makes the entire sysfs cpu directories go away.  Can you please explain
> that?

Sure. Not a problem. I just wanted to make sure you had a chance to look 
at the code first.

Physical hot-remove triggers a "remove" for all the  registered 
subsys_interfaces for that CPU (after going through a couple of 
functions). So, when that happens, the cpufreq subsys_interface remove 
for that CPU gets called. At that point, I clean up that CPU's SW states 
as if it was never plugged in from the start. If that CPU was the owner 
of the sysfs directory, I move it over to a different CPU.

-Saravana

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