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    driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel · 2987557f
    Josh Triplett authored
    When architectures register CPUs, they indicate whether the CPU allows
    hotplugging; notably, x86 and ARM don't allow hotplugging CPU 0.
    Userspace can easily query the hotpluggability of a CPU via sysfs;
    however, the kernel has no convenient way of accessing that property in
    an architecture-independent way.  While the kernel can simply try it and
    see, some code needs to distinguish between "hotplug failed" and
    "hotplug has no hope of working on this CPU"; for example, rcutorture's
    CPU hotplug tests want to avoid drowning out real hotplug failures with
    expected failures.
    
    Expose this property via a new cpu_is_hotpluggable function, so that the
    rest of the kernel can access it in an architecture-independent way.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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