tree b027de413e024bea4f8e88d364b7413bc20ac9b3
parent 6b9dc4806b28214a4a260517e59439e0ac12a15e
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1507041473 +0200
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1507107234 +0200

watchdog/core, powerpc: Lock cpus across reconfiguration

Instead of dropping the cpu hotplug lock after stopping NMI watchdog and
threads and reaquiring for restart, the code and the protection rules
become more obvious when holding cpu hotplug lock across the full
reconfiguration.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1710022105570.2114@nanos