Hi Thomas, On Friday, February 26, 2016 06:43:32 PM Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Make it possible to write a target state to the per cpu state file, so we can > switch between states. One thing that potentially may be problematic here is that any kind of "offline" operations needs to be carried out under device_hotplug_lock, because there are cases in which devices (including CPUs) are taken offline in groups and if one offline fails, the whole operation has to be rolled back. So if you put a CPU into one of the intermediate states manually and something like the above happens in parallel with it, they may not play well together IMO. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html