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diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index db87e78d745..adf937bf409 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/node.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include "base.h"
@@ -208,6 +209,25 @@ static ssize_t print_cpus_offline(struct device *dev,
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(offline, 0444, print_cpus_offline, NULL);
+static void cpu_device_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+ /*
+ * This is an empty function to prevent the driver core from spitting a
+ * warning at us. Yes, I know this is directly opposite of what the
+ * documentation for the driver core and kobjects say, and the author
+ * of this code has already been publically ridiculed for doing
+ * something as foolish as this. However, at this point in time, it is
+ * the only way to handle the issue of statically allocated cpu
+ * devices. The different architectures will have their cpu device
+ * code reworked to properly handle this in the near future, so this
+ * function will then be changed to correctly free up the memory held
+ * by the cpu device.
+ *
+ * Never copy this way of doing things, or you too will be made fun of
+ * on the linux-kerenl list, you have been warned.
+ */
+}
+
/*
* register_cpu - Setup a sysfs device for a CPU.
* @cpu - cpu->hotpluggable field set to 1 will generate a control file in
@@ -221,8 +241,13 @@ int __cpuinit register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)
int error;
cpu->node_id = cpu_to_node(num);
+ memset(&cpu->dev, 0x00, sizeof(struct device));
cpu->dev.id = num;
cpu->dev.bus = &cpu_subsys;
+ cpu->dev.release = cpu_device_release;
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE
+ cpu->dev.bus->uevent = arch_cpu_uevent;
+#endif
error = device_register(&cpu->dev);
if (!error && cpu->hotpluggable)
register_cpu_control(cpu);
@@ -247,6 +272,10 @@ struct device *get_cpu_device(unsigned cpu)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_cpu_device);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE
+static DEVICE_ATTR(modalias, 0444, arch_print_cpu_modalias, NULL);
+#endif
+
static struct attribute *cpu_root_attrs[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
&dev_attr_probe.attr,
@@ -257,6 +286,9 @@ static struct attribute *cpu_root_attrs[] = {
&cpu_attrs[2].attr.attr,
&dev_attr_kernel_max.attr,
&dev_attr_offline.attr,
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE
+ &dev_attr_modalias.attr,
+#endif
NULL
};