-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2011 10:03 PM, Mike Turquette wrote: > On some platforms it is possible to have some CPUs which support CPU > hotplug and some which do not. Currently the prescence of an 'online' > sysfs entry in userspace is adequate for applications to know that a CPU > supports hotplug, but there is no convenient way to make the same > determination in the kernel. > > To better model this relationship this patch introduces a new cpumask to > track CPUs that support CPU hotplug operations. > > This new cpumask is populated at boot-time and remains static for the > life of the machine. Bits set in the mask indicate a CPU which supports > hotplug, but make no guarantees about whether that CPU is currently > online or not. Likewise a cleared bit in the mask indicates either a > CPU which cannot hotplug or a lack of a populated CPU. > > The purpose of this new cpumask is to aid kernel code which uses CPU to > take CPUs online and offline. Possible uses are as a thermal event > mitigation technique or as a power capping mechanism. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturque...@ti.com>
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