On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 04:48:51PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > +int platform_can_cpu_hotplug(void) > +{ > + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !smp_ops.cpu_kill) > + return 0; This is an inappropriate usage of IS_ENABLED(). When hotplug CPU is disabled, there is no cpu_kill member in smp_ops, so this leads to build failure. Dropping your patch.