Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf/arm-ccn: Fix CPU hotplug race avoidance

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 04/02/2019 17:09, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Like arm-cci, arm-ccn has the same issue where disabling preemption to
> avoid races between registering the PMU device and the hotplug notifier
> can lead to those operations taking mutexes in an invalid context. Fix
> it the same way by disabling hotplug instead of preemption. Since we
> only ever associate the PMU instance with a single CPU, we can also take
> the opportunity to slightly simplify the hotplug handling to track just
> that CPU number instead of a full cpumask.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulse <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>