Re: smp: Start up non-boot CPUs asynchronously

Its more than acpi ... machine checks can do it too etc
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Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 06:31 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

frankly, such code HAS to worry about cpus going online and offline
even today; the firmware, at least on X86, can start taking cores
offline/online once ACPI is initialized.... (as controlled by a data
center manager from outside the box, usually done based on thermal or
power conditions on a datacenter level). Now, no doubt that we have
bugs in this space, since this only happened very rarely before. 

Which frankly is an utter piece of crap, that ACPI spec is total garbage
and completely useless. You might have noticed that the ACPI code
supporting that failure carries a big nacked-by from me.

That's not to say we shouldn't try to fix hotplug, but bringing that
ACPI nonsense to the table makes me care less, not more.

I mean, really, that spec is broken, the support is worse.