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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch V2 30/67] powerpc/numa: Convert to hotplug state machine
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* Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Anna-Maria,
> 
> > >> Install the callbacks via the state machine and let the core invoke
> > >> the callbacks on the already online CPUs.  
> > >
> > > This is causing an oops on ppc64le QEMU, looks like a NULL
> > > pointer:  
> > 
> > Did you tested it against tip WIP.hotplug?
> 
> I noticed tip started failing in my CI environment which tests on QEMU.
> The failure bisected to commit 425209e0abaf2c6e3a90ce4fedb935c10652bf80

That's very useful, thanks Anton!

I have removed this commit from the series for the time being, refactored the 
followup commits (there was one trivial conflict). We can re-try this patch when a 
fix is found.

Thanks,

	Ingo