smp: Start up non-boot CPUs asynchronously

[Arjan van de Ven]

Its more than acpi ... machine checks can do it too etc
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Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl> wrote:

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 06:31 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> frankly, such code HAS to worry about cpus going online and offline
> even today; the firmware, at least on X86, can start taking cores
> offline/online once ACPI is initialized.... (as controlled by a data
> center manager from outside the box, usually done based on thermal or
> power conditions on a datacenter level). Now, no doubt that we have
> bugs in this space, since this only happened very rarely before. 

Which frankly is an utter piece of crap, that ACPI spec is total garbage
and completely useless. You might have noticed that the ACPI code
supporting that failure carries a big nacked-by from me.

That's not to say we shouldn't try to fix hotplug, but bringing that
ACPI nonsense to the table makes me care less, not more.

I mean, really, that spec is broken, the support is worse.

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