tree 685ccb486409197b936c785eb9d173c3edff45a1
parent 7e164ce4e8ecd7e9a58a83750bd3ee03125df154
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1484053265 +0100
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1484569205 +0100

cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare stage

Mathieu reported that the LTTNG modules are broken as of 4.10-rc1 due to
the removal of the cpu hotplug notifiers.

Usually I don't care much about out of tree modules, but LTTNG is widely
used in distros. There are two ways to solve that:

1) Reserve a hotplug state for LTTNG

2) Add a dynamic range for the prepare states.

While #1 is the simplest solution, #2 is the proper one as we can convert
in tree users, which do not care about ordering, to the dynamic range as
well.

Add a dynamic range which allows LTTNG to request states in the prepare
stage.

Reported-and-tested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Sewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1701101353010.3401@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>