linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 199/254] powerpc: Don't preempt_disable() in show

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Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:20:18 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        "Michael Ellerman" <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 199/254] powerpc: Don't preempt_disable() in
 show_cpuinfo()

3.16.55-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

commit 349524bc0da698ec77f2057cf4a4948eb6349265 upstream.

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.

Fixes: cd77b5ce208c ("powerpc/powernv/cpufreq: Fix the frequency read by /proc/cpuinfo")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -216,14 +216,6 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file
 	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
@@ -328,9 +320,6 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file
 #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);