Subject: Re: powerpc: Drop lockdep_assert_cpus_held call from arch_update_cpu_topology

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:20:11 +1100 (AEDT)

On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 00:04:30 UTC, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> It turns out that not all paths calling arch_update_cpu_topology hold
> cpu_hotplug_lock, but that's ok because those paths aren't supposed to race
> with any concurrent hotplug events.
> 
> Callers of arch_update_cpu_topology are expected to know what they are
> doing when they call the function without holding the lock, so remove the
> lockdep warning.
...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <[email-masked]>
> Fixes: 3e401f7a2e51 ("powerpc: Only obtain cpu_hotplug_lock if called by rtasd")
> Link: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-September/163244.html
> Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/issues/106

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6b2c08f989250c54f31b53dba9ace8

cheers