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authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>2006-01-06 00:12:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-06 08:33:39 -0800
commit1fa744e6e91a895750b9980d13fcfc5791a0cd91 (patch)
tree2ba30e6d4f263cdb5e5ec9a85fc1fecec9100036 /arch
parent766c3f94d4492ee4ec60b65693e71ee4b1d6fd68 (diff)
[PATCH] cpu hotplug/x86_64: disable interrupt in play_dead
With physical CPU hotplug, the CPU is hot removed and it should not receive any interrupts. Disabling interrupt is much safer. This basically is what we do in ia64 & x86. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
index 7519fc520eb..3060ed97b75 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_idle_wait);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_state);
#include <asm/nmi.h>
-/* We don't actually take CPU down, just spin without interrupts. */
+/* We halt the CPU with physical CPU hotplug */
static inline void play_dead(void)
{
idle_task_exit();
@@ -166,8 +166,9 @@ static inline void play_dead(void)
/* Ack it */
__get_cpu_var(cpu_state) = CPU_DEAD;
+ local_irq_disable();
while (1)
- safe_halt();
+ halt();
}
#else
static inline void play_dead(void)