From 53ae3acd4390ffeecb3a11dbd5be347b5a3d98f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:08:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Only enable local interrupts after the CPU is marked
 online

There is a slight chance that (timer) interrupts are triggered before a
secondary CPU has been marked online with implications on softirq thread
affinity.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 5d54e3717bf81a..9c93e126328cfa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -199,13 +199,6 @@ asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_start_kernel(void)
 	raw_spin_lock(&boot_lock);
 	raw_spin_unlock(&boot_lock);
 
-	/*
-	 * Enable local interrupts.
-	 */
-	notify_cpu_starting(cpu);
-	local_irq_enable();
-	local_fiq_enable();
-
 	/*
 	 * OK, now it's safe to let the boot CPU continue.  Wait for
 	 * the CPU migration code to notice that the CPU is online
@@ -214,6 +207,14 @@ asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_start_kernel(void)
 	set_cpu_online(cpu, true);
 	complete(&cpu_running);
 
+	/*
+	 * Enable GIC and timers.
+	 */
+	notify_cpu_starting(cpu);
+
+	local_irq_enable();
+	local_fiq_enable();
+
 	/*
 	 * OK, it's off to the idle thread for us
 	 */
-- 
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