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>
 {
        int i;
 
-       for_each_cpu(i, &bL_switcher_removed_logical_cpus)
-               cpu_up(i);
+       for_each_cpu(i, &bL_switcher_removed_logical_cpus) {
+               struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(i);
+               int ret = device_online(cpu_dev);
+               if (ret)
+                       dev_err(cpu_dev, "switcher: unable to restore CPU\n");
+       }
 }
 
 static int bL_switcher_halve_cpus(void)
                        continue;
                }
 
-               ret = cpu_down(i);
+               ret = device_offline(get_cpu_device(i));
                if (ret) {
                        bL_switcher_restore_cpus();
                        return ret;