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Commit ef5e724b authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon
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arm64: alternative: put secondary CPUs into polling loop during patch



When patching the kernel text with alternatives, we may end up patching
parts of the stop_machine state machine (e.g. atomic_dec_and_test in
ack_state) and consequently corrupt the instruction stream of any
secondary CPUs.

This patch passes the cpu_online_mask to stop_machine, forcing all of
the CPUs into our own callback which can place the secondary cores into
a dumb (but safe!) polling loop whilst the patching is carried out.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent 6c020ea8
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