On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:05:32PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
>
> cpu_idle() is called on the boot CPU by the init code with
> preemption disabled. But the cpu_idle() function in alpha
> doesn't handle this when it calls schedule() directly.
>
> Fix it by converting it into schedule_preempt_disabled().
>
> Also disable preemption before calling cpu_idle() from
> secondary CPU entry code to stay consistent with this
> state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <i...@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
> Cc: Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com>
> Cc: alpha <linux-al...@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
> arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 3 ++-
> arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
> index 153d3fc..eac5e01 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ cpu_idle(void)
>
> while (!need_resched())
> cpu_relax();
> - schedule();
> +
> + schedule_preempt_disabled();
> }
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
> index 35ddc02..a41ad90 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ smp_callin(void)
> DBGS(("smp_callin: commencing CPU %d current %p active_mm %p\n",
> cpuid, current, current->active_mm));
>
> + preempt_disable();
> /* Do nothing. */
> cpu_idle();
> }
> --
> 1.7.8
>
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