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    cpu: make sure that cpu/online file created before KOBJ_ADD is emitted · 1c4e2d70
    Igor Mammedov 提交于
    It fixes race between udev and hotplugged CPU registration by defining
    "online" attribute statically, so that device_add() would create it
    before notifying udev about new CPU.
    
    Original issue report is at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/198
    "
    > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
    > > Hey Greg,
    > >
    > > Hoping you can help with some guidance on how to fix this.
    > >
    > > The issue is with CPU hotplug is that when a CPU goes up
    > > it calls 'arch_register_cpu' which eventually calls
    > > register_cpu. That function does these two things:
    > >
    > > 251         error = device_register(&cpu->dev);
    > > 252         if (!error && cpu->hotpluggable)
    > > 253                 register_cpu_control(cpu);
    > >
    > > and the device_register creates a nice little SysFS directory:
    > >
    > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/ which at line 251 has the 'add' attribute
    > > but no 'online' attribute. udev then tries to echo 1 to the 'online'
    > > and it we get:
    > > udevd-work[2421]: error opening ATTR{/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online} for writing: No such file or directory
    > >
    > > Line 253 creates said 'online' and at that time udev [or the system admin]
    > > can write 1 to 'online' and the CPU goes up.
    > >
    > > So .. any thoughts? Is there some way to inhibit from uevent being sent
    > > until line 253 has run?
    "
    Signed-off-by: NIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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