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<title>powerpc/fadump: Fix inaccurate CPU state info in vmcore generated with panic</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T09:54:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
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<published>2021-12-07T10:37:19Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 06e629c25daa519be620a8c17359ae8fc7a2e903 ]

In panic path, fadump is triggered via a panic notifier function.
Before calling panic notifier functions, smp_send_stop() gets called,
which stops all CPUs except the panic'ing CPU. Commit 8389b37dffdc
("powerpc: stop_this_cpu: remove the cpu from the online map.") and
again commit bab26238bbd4 ("powerpc: Offline CPU in stop_this_cpu()")
started marking CPUs as offline while stopping them. So, if a kernel
has either of the above commits, vmcore captured with fadump via panic
path would not process register data for all CPUs except the panic'ing
CPU. Sample output of crash-utility with such vmcore:

  # crash vmlinux vmcore
  ...
        KERNEL: vmlinux
      DUMPFILE: vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
          CPUS: 1
          DATE: Wed Nov 10 09:56:34 EST 2021
        UPTIME: 00:00:42
  LOAD AVERAGE: 2.27, 0.69, 0.24
         TASKS: 183
      NODENAME: XXXXXXXXX
       RELEASE: 5.15.0+
       VERSION: #974 SMP Wed Nov 10 04:18:19 CST 2021
       MACHINE: ppc64le  (2500 Mhz)
        MEMORY: 8 GB
         PANIC: "Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash"
           PID: 3394
       COMMAND: "bash"
          TASK: c0000000150a5f80  [THREAD_INFO: c0000000150a5f80]
           CPU: 1
         STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

  crash&gt; p -x __cpu_online_mask
  __cpu_online_mask = $1 = {
    bits = {0x2, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
  }
  crash&gt;
  crash&gt;
  crash&gt; p -x __cpu_active_mask
  __cpu_active_mask = $2 = {
    bits = {0xff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
  }
  crash&gt;

While this has been the case since fadump was introduced, the issue
was not identified for two probable reasons:

  - In general, the bulk of the vmcores analyzed were from crash
    due to exception.

  - The above did change since commit 8341f2f222d7 ("sysrq: Use
    panic() to force a crash") started using panic() instead of
    deferencing NULL pointer to force a kernel crash. But then
    commit de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do not offline
    stopped CPUs") stopped marking CPUs as offline till kernel
    commit bab26238bbd4 ("powerpc: Offline CPU in stop_this_cpu()")
    reverted that change.

To ensure post processing register data of all other CPUs happens
as intended, let panic() function take the crash friendly path (read
crash_smp_send_stop()) with the help of crash_kexec_post_notifiers
option. Also, as register data for all CPUs is captured by f/w, skip
IPI callbacks here for fadump, to avoid any complications in finding
the right backtraces.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207103719.91117-2-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: handle kdump appropriately with crash_kexec_post_notifiers option</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T09:54:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
</author>
<published>2021-12-07T10:37:18Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 219572d2fc4135b5ce65c735d881787d48b10e71 ]

Kdump can be triggered after panic_notifers since commit f06e5153f4ae2
("kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option for kdump
after panic_notifers") introduced crash_kexec_post_notifiers option.
But using this option would mean smp_send_stop(), that marks all other
CPUs as offline, gets called before kdump is triggered. As a result,
kdump routines fail to save other CPUs' registers. To fix this, kdump
friendly crash_smp_send_stop() function was introduced with kernel
commit 0ee59413c967 ("x86/panic: replace smp_send_stop() with kdump
friendly version in panic path"). Override this kdump friendly weak
function to handle crash_kexec_post_notifiers option appropriately
on powerpc.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[Fixed signature of crash_stop_this_cpu() - reported by lkp@intel.com]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207103719.91117-1-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/smp: Move setup_profiling_timer() under CONFIG_PROFILING</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T09:54:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2021-11-24T09:32:53Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit a4ac0d249a5db80e79d573db9e4ad29354b643a8 ]

setup_profiling_timer() is only needed when CONFIG_PROFILING is enabled.

Fixes the following W=1 warning when CONFIG_PROFILING=n:
  linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:1638:5: error: no previous prototype for ‘setup_profiling_timer’

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124093254.1054750-5-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/smp: do not decrement idle task preempt count in CPU offline</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T07:56:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
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<published>2021-10-15T17:39:02Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 787252a10d9422f3058df9a4821f389e5326c440 ]

With PREEMPT_COUNT=y, when a CPU is offlined and then onlined again, we
get:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0x00000000
no locks held by swapper/1/0.
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc2+ #100
Call Trace:
 dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x108
 __schedule_bug+0xac/0xe0
 __schedule+0xcf8/0x10d0
 schedule_idle+0x3c/0x70
 do_idle+0x2d8/0x4a0
 cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x40
 start_secondary+0x2ec/0x3a0
 start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14

This is because powerpc's arch_cpu_idle_dead() decrements the idle task's
preempt count, for reasons explained in commit a7c2bb8279d2 ("powerpc:
Re-enable preemption before cpu_die()"), specifically "start_secondary()
expects a preempt_count() of 0."

However, since commit 2c669ef6979c ("powerpc/preempt: Don't touch the idle
task's preempt_count during hotplug") and commit f1a0a376ca0c ("sched/core:
Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled"), that justification no
longer holds.

The idle task isn't supposed to re-enable preemption, so remove the
vestigial preempt_enable() from the CPU offline path.

Tested with pseries and powernv in qemu, and pseries on PowerVM.

Fixes: 2c669ef6979c ("powerpc/preempt: Don't touch the idle task's preempt_count during hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211015173902.2278118-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/smp: Update cpu_core_map on all PowerPc systems</title>
<updated>2021-09-18T11:40:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
</author>
<published>2021-08-26T10:04:00Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit b8b928030332a0ca16d42433eb2c3085600d8704 ]

lscpu() uses core_siblings to list the number of sockets in the
system. core_siblings is set using topology_core_cpumask.

While optimizing the powerpc bootup path, Commit 4ca234a9cbd7
("powerpc/smp: Stop updating cpu_core_mask").  it was found that
updating cpu_core_mask() ended up taking a lot of time. It was thought
that on Powerpc, cpu_core_mask() would always be same as
cpu_cpu_mask() i.e number of sockets will always be equal to number of
nodes. As an optimization, cpu_core_mask() was made a snapshot of
cpu_cpu_mask().

However that was found to be false with PowerPc KVM guests, where each
node could have more than one socket. So with Commit c47f892d7aa6
("powerpc/smp: Reintroduce cpu_core_mask"), cpu_core_mask was updated
based on chip_id but in an optimized way using some mask manipulations
and chip_id caching.

However on non-PowerNV and non-pseries KVM guests (i.e not
implementing cpu_to_chip_id(), continued to use a copy of
cpu_cpu_mask().

There are two issues that were noticed on such systems
1. lscpu would report one extra socket.
On a IBM,9009-42A (aka zz system) which has only 2 chips/ sockets/
nodes, lscpu would report
Architecture:        ppc64le
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              160
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
Thread(s) per core:  8
Core(s) per socket:  6
Socket(s):           3                &lt;--------------
NUMA node(s):        2
Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
Model name:          POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor:   pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache:           32K
L1i cache:           32K
L2 cache:            512K
L3 cache:            10240K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-79
NUMA node1 CPU(s):   80-159

2. Currently cpu_cpu_mask is updated when a core is
added/removed. However its not updated when smt mode switching or on
CPUs are explicitly offlined. However all other percpu masks are
updated to ensure only active/online CPUs are in the masks.
This results in build_sched_domain traces since there will be CPUs in
cpu_cpu_mask() but those CPUs are not present in SMT / CACHE / MC /
NUMA domains. A loop of threads running smt mode switching and core
add/remove will soon show this trace.
Hence cpu_cpu_mask has to be update at smt mode switch.

This will have impact on cpu_core_mask(). cpu_core_mask() is a
snapshot of cpu_cpu_mask. Different CPUs within the same socket will
end up having different cpu_core_masks since they are snapshots at
different points of time. This means when lscpu will start reporting
many more sockets than the actual number of sockets/ nodes / chips.

Different ways to handle this problem:
A. Update the snapshot aka cpu_core_mask for all CPUs whenever
   cpu_cpu_mask is updated. This would a non-optimal solution.
B. Instead of a cpumask_var_t, make cpu_core_map a cpumask pointer
   pointing to cpu_cpu_mask. However percpu cpumask pointer is frowned
   upon and we need a clean way to handle PowerPc KVM guest which is
   not a snapshot.
C. Update cpu_core_masks all PowerPc systems like in PowerPc KVM
guests using mask manipulations. This approach is relatively simple
and unifies with the existing code.
D. On top of 3, we could also resurrect get_physical_package_id which
   could return a nid for the said CPU. However this is not needed at this
   time.

Option C is the preferred approach for now.

While this is somewhat a revert of Commit 4ca234a9cbd7 ("powerpc/smp:
Stop updating cpu_core_mask").

1. Plain revert has some conflicts
2. For chip_id == -1, the cpu_core_mask is made identical to
cpu_cpu_mask, unlike previously where cpu_core_mask was set to a core
if chip_id doesn't exist.

This goes by the principle that if chip_id is not exposed, then
sockets / chip / node share the same set of CPUs.

With the fix, lscpu o/p would be
Architecture:        ppc64le
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              160
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
Thread(s) per core:  8
Core(s) per socket:  6
Socket(s):           2                     &lt;--------------
NUMA node(s):        2
Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
Model name:          POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor:   pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache:           32K
L1i cache:           32K
L2 cache:            512K
L3 cache:            10240K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-79
NUMA node1 CPU(s):   80-159

Fixes: 4ca234a9cbd7 ("powerpc/smp: Stop updating cpu_core_mask")
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210826100401.412519-3-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Offline CPU in stop_this_cpu()</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:56:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-23T04:12:45Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit bab26238bbd44d5a4687c0a64fd2c7f2755ea937 ]

printk_safe_flush_on_panic() has special lock breaking code for the case
where we panic()ed with the console lock held. It relies on panic IPI
causing other CPUs to mark themselves offline.

Do as most other architectures do.

This effectively reverts commit de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do
not offline stopped CPUs"), unfortunately it may result in some false
positive warnings, but the alternative is more situations where we can
crash without getting messages out.

Fixes: de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do not offline stopped CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623041245.865134-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:55:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T09:46:36Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -&gt; idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/smp: Set numa node before updating mask</title>
<updated>2021-05-19T08:12:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
</author>
<published>2021-04-01T15:42:00Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6980d13f0dd189846887bbbfa43793d9a41768d3 ]

Geethika reported a trace when doing a dlpar CPU add.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 152 PID: 1134 at kernel/sched/topology.c:2057
CPU: 152 PID: 1134 Comm: kworker/152:1 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-master #5
Workqueue: events cpuset_hotplug_workfn
NIP:  c0000000001cfc14 LR: c0000000001cfc10 CTR: c0000000007e3420
REGS: c0000034a08eb260 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.12.0-rc5-master+)
MSR:  8000000000029033 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28828422  XER: 00000020
CFAR: c0000000001fd888 IRQMASK: 0 #012GPR00: c0000000001cfc10
c0000034a08eb500 c000000001f35400 0000000000000027 #012GPR04:
c0000035abaa8010 c0000035abb30a00 0000000000000027 c0000035abaa8018
#012GPR08: 0000000000000023 c0000035abaaef48 00000035aa540000
c0000035a49dffe8 #012GPR12: 0000000028828424 c0000035bf1a1c80
0000000000000497 0000000000000004 #012GPR16: c00000000347a258
0000000000000140 c00000000203d468 c000000001a1a490 #012GPR20:
c000000001f9c160 c0000034adf70920 c0000034aec9fd20 0000000100087bd3
#012GPR24: 0000000100087bd3 c0000035b3de09f8 0000000000000030
c0000035b3de09f8 #012GPR28: 0000000000000028 c00000000347a280
c0000034aefe0b00 c0000000010a2a68
NIP [c0000000001cfc14] build_sched_domains+0x6a4/0x1500
LR [c0000000001cfc10] build_sched_domains+0x6a0/0x1500
Call Trace:
[c0000034a08eb500] [c0000000001cfc10] build_sched_domains+0x6a0/0x1500 (unreliable)
[c0000034a08eb640] [c0000000001d1e6c] partition_sched_domains_locked+0x3ec/0x530
[c0000034a08eb6e0] [c0000000002936d4] rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x524/0xbf0
[c0000034a08eb7e0] [c000000000296bb0] rebuild_sched_domains+0x40/0x70
[c0000034a08eb810] [c000000000296e74] cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x294/0xe20
[c0000034a08ebc30] [c000000000178dd0] process_one_work+0x300/0x670
[c0000034a08ebd10] [c0000000001791b8] worker_thread+0x78/0x520
[c0000034a08ebda0] [c000000000185090] kthread+0x1a0/0x1b0
[c0000034a08ebe10] [c00000000000ccec] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x70
Instruction dump:
7d2903a6 4e800421 e8410018 7f67db78 7fe6fb78 7f45d378 7f84e378 7c681b78
3c62ff1a 3863c6f8 4802dc35 60000000 &lt;0fe00000&gt; 3920fff4 f9210070 e86100a0
---[ end trace 532d9066d3d4d7ec ]---

Some of the per-CPU masks use cpu_cpu_mask as a filter to limit the search
for related CPUs. On a dlpar add of a CPU, update cpu_cpu_mask before
updating the per-CPU masks. This will ensure the cpu_cpu_mask is updated
correctly before its used in setting the masks. Setting the numa_node will
ensure that when cpu_cpu_mask() gets called, the correct node number is
used. This code movement helped fix the above call trace.

Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani &lt;Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401154200.150077-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/smp: Reintroduce cpu_core_mask</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T07:50:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
</author>
<published>2021-04-15T12:09:32Z</published>
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Daniel reported that with Commit 4ca234a9cbd7 ("powerpc/smp: Stop
updating cpu_core_mask") QEMU was unable to set single NUMA node SMP
topologies such as:
 -smp 8,maxcpus=8,cores=2,threads=2,sockets=2
 i.e he expected 2 sockets in one NUMA node.

The above commit helped to reduce boot time on Large Systems for
example 4096 vCPU single socket QEMU instance. PAPR is silent on
having more than one socket within a NUMA node.

cpu_core_mask and cpu_cpu_mask for any CPU would be same unless the
number of sockets is different from the number of NUMA nodes.

One option is to reintroduce cpu_core_mask but use a slightly
different method to arrive at the cpu_core_mask. Previously each CPU's
chip-id would be compared with all other CPU's chip-id to verify if
both the CPUs were related at the chip level. Now if a CPU 'A' is
found related / (unrelated) to another CPU 'B', all the thread
siblings of 'A' and thread siblings of 'B' are automatically marked as
related / (unrelated).

Also if a platform doesn't support ibm,chip-id property, i.e its
cpu_to_chip_id returns -1, cpu_core_map holds a copy of
cpu_cpu_mask().

Fixes: 4ca234a9cbd7 ("powerpc/smp: Stop updating cpu_core_mask")
Reported-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza &lt;danielhb413@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza &lt;danielhb413@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415120934.232271-2-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/smp: Add __init to init_big_cores()</title>
<updated>2020-12-30T10:54:01Z</updated>
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<name>Cédric Le Goater</name>
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<published>2020-12-21T07:41:54Z</published>
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It fixes this link warning:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x2d98): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_big_cores.isra.0() to the function .init.text:init_thread_group_cache_map()
The function init_big_cores.isra.0() references
the function __init init_thread_group_cache_map().
This is often because init_big_cores.isra.0 lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of init_thread_group_cache_map is wrong.

Fixes: 425752c63b6f ("powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm, thread-groups"")
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221074154.403779-1-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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