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    arm64: alternative: put secondary CPUs into polling loop during patch · ef5e724b
    Will Deacon authored
    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>
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