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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c index b37973f11ce0..1eef9e73e6a3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c @@ -615,7 +615,14 @@ int generic_cpu_disable(void) /* Update affinity of all IRQs previously aimed at this CPU */ irq_migrate_all_off_this_cpu(); - /* Give the CPU time to drain in-flight ones */ + /* + * Depending on the details of the interrupt controller, it's possible + * that one of the interrupts we just migrated away from this CPU is + * actually already pending on this CPU. If we leave it in that state + * the interrupt will never be EOI'ed, and will never fire again. So + * temporarily enable interrupts here, to allow any pending interrupt to + * be received (and EOI'ed), before we take this CPU offline. + */ local_irq_enable(); mdelay(1); local_irq_disable(); |