[PATCH] powerpc: avoid timer interrupt replay effect when onlining cpu

When a cpu is hotplug-onlined, if we don't set per_cpu(last_jiffy) to
something sane, timer_interrupt will execute its while loop for every
tick missed since the cpu was last online (or since the system was
booted, if we're adding a new cpu).  This can cause weird hangs, ssh
sessions dropping, and we can even go xmon if we take a global IPI at
the wrong time.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index c8458c5..13595a6 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ int __devinit start_secondary(void *unused)
        if (smp_ops->take_timebase)
                smp_ops->take_timebase();
 
+       if (system_state > SYSTEM_BOOTING)
+               per_cpu(last_jiffy, cpu) = get_tb();
+
        spin_lock(&call_lock);
        cpu_set(cpu, cpu_online_map);
        spin_unlock(&call_lock);