On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, tip-bot for Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The original change widens a preempt-off section, to avoid a seemingly unsafe
> smp_processor_id() use.
> 
> During review I overlooked two facts:
> 
>  - The code to calls a non-trivial function callback:
> 
>                                 ht->park(td->cpu);
> 
>    ... which might (and does occasionally) sleep, triggering the warning.
> 
>  - More importantly, as pointed out by Peter Zijlstra, using
>    smp_processor_id() in that context is safe, if it's done from
>    a kernel thread that is pinned to a single CPU - which is the
>    case here.
> 
> So revert to the original code that enables preemption sooner.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <xiaolong...@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>

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