Ingo reported it on lkml in the thread
  "2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82!"
This check added to remove_dev  is symmetric to one in add_dev and handles
callbacks for offline cpus cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 {
        unsigned int cpu = sys_dev->id;
        int retval;
+
+       if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
+               return 0;
+
        if (unlikely(lock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu)))
                BUG();