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> Assuming the problem is with the multiple devices (not fully sure):
>
> The redundant devices don't make much sense anyways, they are all 
> mirrors of each other
> (state changes always affect all CPUs)  Could just collapse down to a 
> single device and symlink
> the others.

Checking again it seems like the AMD threshold code reports per CPU 
counters so it would
still need per CPU devices.

All the other code is just a single instance I believe and doesn't 
actually need all the
complicated per CPU code.

-Andi