On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:05:32PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> 
> cpu_idle() is called on the boot CPU by the init code with
> preemption disabled. But the cpu_idle() function in alpha
> doesn't handle this when it calls schedule() directly.
> 
> Fix it by converting it into schedule_preempt_disabled().
> 
> Also disable preemption before calling cpu_idle() from
> secondary CPU entry code to stay consistent with this
> state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
> Cc: alpha <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michael Cree <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>

>  arch/alpha/kernel/process.c |    3 ++-
>  arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c     |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
> index 153d3fc..eac5e01 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ cpu_idle(void)
>  
>               while (!need_resched())
>                       cpu_relax();
> -             schedule();
> +
> +             schedule_preempt_disabled();
>       }
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
> index 35ddc02..a41ad90 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ smp_callin(void)
>       DBGS(("smp_callin: commencing CPU %d current %p active_mm %p\n",
>             cpuid, current, current->active_mm));
>  
> +     preempt_disable();
>       /* Do nothing.  */
>       cpu_idle();
>  }
> -- 
> 1.7.8
> 
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