This causes warnings from cpufreq mutex code. This is also rather unnecessary and ineffective. If we really want to prevent concurrent unplug, we could take the unplug read lock but I don't see this being critical.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c index 9d213542a48b..8fd3a70047f1 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c @@ -242,14 +242,6 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v) unsigned short maj; unsigned short min; - /* We only show online cpus: disable preempt (overzealous, I - * knew) to prevent cpu going down. */ - preempt_disable(); - if (!cpu_online(cpu_id)) { - preempt_enable(); - return 0; - } - #ifdef CONFIG_SMP pvr = per_cpu(cpu_pvr, cpu_id); #else @@ -358,9 +350,6 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP seq_printf(m, "\n"); #endif - - preempt_enable(); - /* If this is the last cpu, print the summary */ if (cpumask_next(cpu_id, cpu_online_mask) >= nr_cpu_ids) show_cpuinfo_summary(m); -- 2.14.3