Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Freezer, CPU hotplug, x86 Microcode: Fix taskfreezing failures

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:53 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Yes, agreed. And more: I'm still trying to understand why a test case
> like that is relevant and needs to be fixed at all. Let me re-formulate
> the question: what real world scenario(s) does the case of hibernating
> _while_ off- and onlining cores cover? Or are you simply doing kernel
> resiliency testing and thought that offlining cores while hibernating
> might make sense? 

It can happen, therefore it will. We had better deal with it.

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