The content of /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online is still 1 for those
CPUs that the switcher has removed even though the global state in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/online is updated correctly.
It turns out that commit 0902a9044f ("Driver core: Use generic
offline/online for CPU offline/online") has changed the way those files
retrieve their content by relying on on the generic attribute handling
code. The switcher, by calling cpu_down() directly, bypasses this
handling and the attribute value doesn't get updated.
Fix this by calling device_offline()/device_online() instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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