Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: OCTEON: fix kernel crash when offlining a CPU

[David Daney]

On 01/15/2015 10:49 AM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> octeon_cpu_disable() will unconditionally enable interrupts when called
> with interrupts disabled. Fix that.

interrupts are always disabled here, so...

[...]
> Reported-by: Hemmo Nieminen <hemmo.nieminen@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

NACK!

> ---
>   arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> index ecd903d..9673c5b 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_state);
>   static int octeon_cpu_disable(void)
>   {
>   	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +	unsigned long flags;
>
>   	if (cpu == 0)
>   		return -EBUSY;
> @@ -240,9 +241,9 @@ static int octeon_cpu_disable(void)
>
>   	set_cpu_online(cpu, false);
>   	cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_callin_map);
> -	local_irq_disable();
> +	local_irq_save(flags);

Just remove this...

>   	octeon_fixup_irqs();
> -	local_irq_enable();
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);

... and this.

>   	flush_cache_all();
>   	local_flush_tlb_all();

You can add an Acked-by me if you do that.

David Daney.
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