From: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, glommer@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu,
       pzijlstr@redhat.com, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] onlining cpus can break lockdep
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:40:54 -0300
Message-Id: <1203626456-3101-1-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

While testing with hotplugging cpus today, I've came across a stack
trace generated by lockdep. The reason for that is that
do_boot_cpu() in smpboot_64.c ends up initializing a struct work_struct
variable in the stack.

These patches fix this by making it static. a per-cpu variable is choosen,
since, to the best of my knowledge, nothing prevents two cpus going up
at the same time, and so a single static c_idle won't do.

I separated it in two patches to better isolate the change. The first patch
just paves the way, by turning access to c_idle into pointer dereferences.
The second one does the real work.

Thanks


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