RISC-V: Disable preemption before enabling interrupts
authorAtish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:14:58 +0000 (12:14 -0700)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:03:36 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
Currently, irq is enabled before preemption disabling happens.
If the scheduler fired right here and cpu is scheduled then it
may blow up.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
[Atish: Commit text and code comment formatting update]
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c

index 712e9ca..670749e 100644 (file)
@@ -111,7 +111,11 @@ asmlinkage void __init smp_callin(void)
         * a local TLB flush right now just in case.
         */
        local_flush_tlb_all();
-       local_irq_enable();
+       /*
+        * Disable preemption before enabling interrupts, so we don't try to
+        * schedule a CPU that hasn't actually started yet.
+        */
        preempt_disable();
+       local_irq_enable();
        cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);
 }