When testing cpu hotplug code on 32-bit we kept hitting the "CPU%d:
Stuck ??" message due to multiple cores concurrently accessing the
cpu_callin_mask, among others.
Since these codepaths are not protected from concurrent access due to
the fact that there's no sane reason for making an already complex
code unnecessarily more complex - we hit the issue only when insanely
switching cores off- and online - serialize hotplugging cores on the
sysfs level and be done with it.
[ v2.1: fix !HOTPLUG_CPU build ]
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100819181029.GC17171@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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