This is used by some "soft" hotplug implementations. I needs to call idle_task_exit() when the CPU is going away, and we remove the now no-longer needed set_cpu_online() and local_irq_enable() which are handled by the return to start_secondary
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c index 1c9956c..3c0fab5 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c @@ -362,14 +362,13 @@ void generic_mach_cpu_die(void) unsigned int cpu; local_irq_disable(); + idle_task_exit(); cpu = smp_processor_id(); printk(KERN_DEBUG "CPU%d offline\n", cpu); __get_cpu_var(cpu_state) = CPU_DEAD; smp_wmb(); while (__get_cpu_var(cpu_state) != CPU_UP_PREPARE) cpu_relax(); - set_cpu_online(cpu, true); - local_irq_enable(); } #endif -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev