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From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [sh] A possible problem in start_secondary()
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:26:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <799851372422367@web4d.yandex.ru> (raw)

Hi, Paul,

I found out a possible wrong order of local_irq_enable/set_cpu_online at start_secondary().

If irqs are enabled then cpu can receive a timer interrupt, which can cause softirq action.

If we are waking softirq thread on offline cpu, select_task_rq() chooses any active cpu and changes
affinity. So, possible bound softirq thread will change his affinity.

I had this problem on old kernel version on sparc. Maybe, it will be useful for you.

Regards,
Kirill

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