Subject: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Don't preempt_disable() in show_cpuinfo()

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:10:12 +1100

This causes warnings from cpufreq mutex code. This is also
rather unnecessary and ineffective. If we really want to
prevent concurrent unplug, we could take the unplug read
lock but I don't see this being critical.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 9d213542a48b..8fd3a70047f1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -242,14 +242,6 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 	unsigned short maj;
 	unsigned short min;
 
-	/* We only show online cpus: disable preempt (overzealous, I
-	 * knew) to prevent cpu going down. */
-	preempt_disable();
-	if (!cpu_online(cpu_id)) {
-		preempt_enable();
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	pvr = per_cpu(cpu_pvr, cpu_id);
 #else
@@ -358,9 +350,6 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	seq_printf(m, "\n");
 #endif
-
-	preempt_enable();
-
 	/* If this is the last cpu, print the summary */
 	if (cpumask_next(cpu_id, cpu_online_mask) >= nr_cpu_ids)
 		show_cpuinfo_summary(m);
-- 
2.14.3