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Santosh Shilimkar committed 4ac3dbec800
oprofile: Fix the hang while taking the cpu offline The kernel build with CONFIG_OPROFILE and CPU_HOTPLUG enabled. The oprofile is initialised using system timer in absence of hardware counters supports. Oprofile isn't started from userland. In this setup while doing a CPU offline the kernel hangs in infinite for loop inside lock_hrtimer_base() function This happens because as part of oprofile_cpu_notify(, it tries to stop an hrtimer which was never started. These per-cpu hrtimers are started when the oprfile is started. echo 1 > /dev/oprofile/enable This problem also existwhen the cpu is booted with maxcpus parameter set. When bringing the remaining cpus online the timers are started even if oprofile is not yet enabled. This patch fix this issue by adding a state variable so that these hrtimer start/stop is only attempted when oprofile is started For stable kernels v2.6.35.y and v2.6.36.y. Reported-by: Jan Sebastien <s-jan@ti.com> Tested-by: sricharan <r.sricharan@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>