3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> commit 53ae3acd4390ffeecb3a11dbd5be347b5a3d98f2 upstream. There is a slight chance that (timer) interrupts are triggered before a secondary CPU has been marked online with implications on softirq thread affinity. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c @@ -200,13 +200,6 @@ asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_star raw_spin_unlock(&boot_lock); /* - * Enable local interrupts. - */ - notify_cpu_starting(cpu); - local_irq_enable(); - local_fiq_enable(); - - /* * OK, now it's safe to let the boot CPU continue. Wait for * the CPU migration code to notice that the CPU is online * before we continue. @@ -215,6 +208,14 @@ asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_star complete(&cpu_running); /* + * Enable GIC and timers. + */ + notify_cpu_starting(cpu); + + local_irq_enable(); + local_fiq_enable(); + + /* * OK, it's off to the idle thread for us */ cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_ONLINE); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html