Re: [PATCH v2] cpu/hotplug: Do not bail-out in DYING/STARTING sections

[Vincent Donnefort]

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 06:52:48PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 05:05:36PM +0100, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> > The DYING/STARTING callbacks are not expected to fail. However, as reported
> > by Derek, drivers such as tboot are still free to return errors within
> > those sections. In that case, there's nothing the hotplug machinery can do,
> > so let's just proceed and log the failures.
> > 
> 
> I'm confused. Why isn't this a driver bug?

It is a entirely a driver bug which has been reported already. but 453e41085183
(cpu/hotplug: Add cpuhp_invoke_callback_range()) changed the behaviour so I
thought it would be worth to revert to the original one which is to not break
the entire up/down for a single driver error.