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ARM: 7669/1: keep __my_cpu_offset consistent with generic one
authorMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:52:12 +0000 (13:52 +0100)
committerJason Liu <r64343@freescale.com>
Wed, 2 Apr 2014 07:15:53 +0000 (15:15 +0800)
commit1359ced1b2ee36c7489b7be59199971f7c86d82b
tree92f221159219cb956b45af9586b82d58b11776bc
parente43a78d6638fca6a5be7a95258491c3aca502a70
ARM: 7669/1: keep __my_cpu_offset consistent with generic one

Commit 14318efb(ARM: 7587/1: implement optimized percpu variable access)
introduces arm's __my_cpu_offset to optimize percpu vaiable access,
which really works well on hackbench, but will cause __my_cpu_offset
to return garbage value before it is initialized in cpu_init() called
by setup_arch, so accessing percpu variable before setup_arch may cause
kernel hang. But generic __my_cpu_offset always returns zero before
percpu area is brought up, and won't hang kernel.

So the patch tries to clear __my_cpu_offset on boot CPU early
to avoid boot hang.

At least now percpu variable is accessed by lockdep before
setup_arch(), and enabling CONFIG_LOCK_STAT or CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP
can trigger kernel hang.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
(cherry picked from commit 9394c1c65e61eb6f4c1c99f342b49e451ec337b6)
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c