[RFC PATCH] ARM: smp: Fix the CPU hotplug race with scheduler.

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jun 21 19:10:35 EDT 2011


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:16:47PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 03:26 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:51:00PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> >> On 6/21/2011 3:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>> I won't be committing the init/calibrate.c change to a git tree - it
> >>> isn't ARM stuff so it goes in patch form.
> >> Patches with change log would be fine as well.
> > The answer is not at the moment, but maybe soon.
> 
> Should we send those two patches to the stable trees as well? They seem
> to fix issues with cpu onlining that have existed for a long time.

Looks to me like the problem was introduced for 2.6.39-rc1, so we
should probably get the fix into the 2.6.39-stable tree too.



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