[PATCH] CPU hotplug printk fix
In the cpu hotplug case, per-cpu data possibly isn't initialized even the
system state is 'running'. As the comments say in the original code, some
console drivers assume per-cpu resources have been allocated. radeon fb is
one such driver, which uses kmalloc. After a CPU is down, the per-cpu data
of slab is freed, so the system crashed when printing some info.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 3a442bf..5092397 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -588,8 +588,7 @@
log_level_unknown = 1;
}
- if (!cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) &&
- system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
+ if (!cpu_online(smp_processor_id())) {
/*
* Some console drivers may assume that per-cpu resources have
* been allocated. So don't allow them to be called by this