Patch "Drivers: hv: vmbus: prevent cpu offlining on newer hypervisors" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/hyperv.h>
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <asm/hyperv.h>

@@ -689,6 +690,39 @@ static void vmbus_flow_handler(unsigned
 	desc->action->handler(irq, desc->action->dev_id);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+static int hyperv_cpu_disable(void)
+{
+	return -ENOSYS;
+}
+
+static void hv_cpu_hotplug_quirk(bool vmbus_loaded)
+{
+	static void *previous_cpu_disable;
+
+	/*
+	 * Offlining a CPU when running on newer hypervisors (WS2012R2, Win8,
+	 * ...) is not supported at this moment as channel interrupts are
+	 * distributed across all of them.
+	 */
+
+	if ((vmbus_proto_version == VERSION_WS2008) ||
+	    (vmbus_proto_version == VERSION_WIN7))
+		return;
+
+	if (vmbus_loaded) {
+		previous_cpu_disable = smp_ops.cpu_disable;
+		smp_ops.cpu_disable = hyperv_cpu_disable;
+		pr_notice("CPU offlining is not supported by hypervisor\n");
+	} else if (previous_cpu_disable)
+		smp_ops.cpu_disable = previous_cpu_disable;
+}
+#else
+static void hv_cpu_hotplug_quirk(bool vmbus_loaded)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * vmbus_bus_init -Main vmbus driver initialization routine.
  *

@@ -747,6 +781,7 @@ static int vmbus_bus_init(int irq)
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_alloc;
 
+	hv_cpu_hotplug_quirk(true);
 	vmbus_request_offers();
 
 	return 0;

@@ -984,6 +1019,7 @@ static void __exit vmbus_exit(void)
 	bus_unregister(&hv_bus);
 	hv_cleanup();
 	acpi_bus_unregister_driver(&vmbus_acpi_driver);
+	hv_cpu_hotplug_quirk(false);
 }