Re: [PATCH] arch: s390: kernel: reset 'c->hotpluggable' when failure occurs

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 09:46:45AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> When smp_add_present_cpu() fails, it has reset all things excluding
> 'c->hotpluggable', so need reset it as original state completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kernel/smp.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
> index 15a016c..c4c6f42 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -1016,6 +1016,7 @@ out_cpu:
>  	unregister_cpu(c);
>  #endif
>  out:
> +	c->hotpluggable = 0;
>  	return rc;

No, that doesn't make sense. All cpus on s390 are always hotplugable.
It really doesn't matter if the value of this field is 0 or 1 after
an error.