From 12633e803a2a556f6469e0933d08233d0844a2d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Fontenot Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:23:25 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 5dbd375a3f2..0df57466e78 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -320,6 +320,10 @@ config HOTPLUG_CPU Say N if you are unsure. +config ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE + def_bool y + depends on HOTPLUG_CPU + config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG def_bool y -- cgit v1.2.3