linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:49:17 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Florian Fainelli (1):
      x86: devicetree: Add missing early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch stub

Thomas Gleixner (1):
      x86: cpu-hotplug: Prevent softirq wakeup on wrong CPU


 arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c |   11 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c    |   13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c b/arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c
index 690bc84..9aeb78a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/of_pci.h>
+#include <linux/initrd.h>
 
 #include <asm/hpet.h>
 #include <asm/irq_controller.h>
@@ -98,6 +99,16 @@ void * __init early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch(u64 size, u64 align)
 	return __alloc_bootmem(size, align, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
+void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start,
+					    unsigned long end)
+{
+	initrd_start = (unsigned long)__va(start);
+	initrd_end = (unsigned long)__va(end);
+	initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
+}
+#endif
+
 void __init add_dtb(u64 data)
 {
 	initial_dtb = data + offsetof(struct setup_data, data);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 33a0c11..9fd3137 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -285,6 +285,19 @@ notrace static void __cpuinit start_secondary(void *unused)
 	per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;
 	x86_platform.nmi_init();
 
+	/*
+	 * Wait until the cpu which brought this one up marked it
+	 * online before enabling interrupts. If we don't do that then
+	 * we can end up waking up the softirq thread before this cpu
+	 * reached the active state, which makes the scheduler unhappy
+	 * and schedule the softirq thread on the wrong cpu. This is
+	 * only observable with forced threaded interrupts, but in
+	 * theory it could also happen w/o them. It's just way harder
+	 * to achieve.
+	 */
+	while (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_active_mask))
+		cpu_relax();
+
 	/* enable local interrupts */
 	local_irq_enable();
 
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