linux-kernel - Re: [Patch -v4 1/4] Migrate shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

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Message-ID: <20130417092737.GA12402@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:27:37 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"rusty@...tcorp.com.au" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Patch -v4 1/4] Migrate shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 09:46:53AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> What you mention here should indeed already be handled by the
> architecture hotplug code (for example on x86 the boot CPU cannot be
> hot-removed).

Supposedly, some new Intels (I think Ivybridge or so) can actually be
hot-removed.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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