commit 2c669ef6979c370f98d4b876e54f19613c81e075 upstream. Powerpc currently resets a CPU's idle task preempt_count to 0 before said task starts executing the secondary startup routine (and becomes an idle task proper). This conflicts with commit f1a0a376ca0c ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled"). which initializes all of the idle tasks' preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED during smp_init(). Note that this was superfluous before said commit, as back then the hotplug machinery would invoke init_idle() via idle_thread_get(), which would have already reset the CPU's idle task's preempt_count to PREEMPT_ENABLED. Get rid of this preempt_count write. Fixes: f1a0a376ca0c ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled") Reported-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210707183831.2106509-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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