tree d32e3e32c163a57c9681009f5ea965088d9e4579
parent ab519a011caa5ec47d992cb8a4fc8e7af9b9e3f8
author Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> 1259169805 +0000
committer Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 1260338973 +1100

sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files

Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to
Documentation/ABI.  There are no changes to any of the C code from v2
of the patch.

In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
and removing cpus to/from the system.

This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts
from writes to the sysfs files.

The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
capability will have the files created.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>