[GIT PULL] x86 fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jun 13 2011 - 05:49:27 EST


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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