[PATCH 8/8] RISC-V: Disable preemption before enabling interrupts when booting secondary harts

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Mon Aug 27 2018 - 14:58:59 EST


I'm not sure, but I think this was a bug: if the scheduler fired right
here then I believe it would blow up.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
index 953bc540207d..45515cc70181 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ asmlinkage void __init smp_callin(void)
/* Remote TLB flushes are ignored while the CPU is offline, so emit a local
* TLB flush right now just in case. */
local_flush_tlb_all();
- local_irq_enable();
+ /* Disable preemption before enabling interrupts, so we don't try to
+ * schedule a CPU that hasn't actually started yet. */
preempt_disable();
+ local_irq_enable();
cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);
}
--
2.16.4