Patch 2+3 were applied and then dropped by Jens due to a NOHZ+softirq related warning [0]. Turns out a successful wakeup via set_nr_if_polling() will not process any softirqs and the CPU may go back to idle. This is addressed by patch #1. smpcfd_dying_cpu() will also invoke SMP-functions calls via flush_smp_call_function_queue() but the block layer shouldn't queue anything because the CPU isn't online anymore. The two caller of flush_smp_call_function_from_idle() look fine with opening interrupts from within do_softirq(). [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ee4b31b-350e-a9f5-4349-cfb34b89829a@xxxxxxxxx Sebastian
