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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: xen-hotplug.patch
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:45:27 +0100
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>top (at least old versions) would crash if the number of online 
>processors changed while they ran. Hence this patch. Not clear it's 
>really a good fix, but it does okay as a workaround.

That must be a problem with CPU hotplug on real hardware then, too.

Jan