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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c index 33a0c11797de..9fd3137230d4 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(); |