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powerpc: smp_send_stop do not offline stopped CPUs

Marking CPUs stopped by smp_send_stop as offline can cause warnings
due to cross-CPU wakeups. This trace was noticed on a busy system
running a sysrq+c crash test, after the injected crash:

WARNING: CPU: 51 PID: 1546 at kernel/sched/core.c:1179 set_task_cpu+0x22c/0x240
CPU: 51 PID: 1546 Comm: kworker/u352:1 Tainted: G D
Workqueue: mlx5e mlx5e_update_stats_work [mlx5_core]
[...]
NIP [c00000000017c21c] set_task_cpu+0x22c/0x240
LR [c00000000017d580] try_to_wake_up+0x230/0x720
Call Trace:
[c000000001017700] runqueues+0x0/0xb00 (unreliable)
[c00000000017d580] try_to_wake_up+0x230/0x720
[c00000000015a214] insert_work+0x104/0x140
[c00000000015adb0] __queue_work+0x230/0x690
[c000003fc5007910] [c00000000015b26c] queue_work_on+0x5c/0x90
[c0080000135fc8f8] mlx5_cmd_exec+0x538/0xcb0 [mlx5_core]
[c008000013608fd0] mlx5_core_access_reg+0x140/0x1d0 [mlx5_core]
[c00800001362777c] mlx5e_update_pport_counters.constprop.59+0x6c/0x90 [mlx5_core]
[c008000013628868] mlx5e_update_ndo_stats+0x28/0x90 [mlx5_core]
[c008000013625558] mlx5e_update_stats_work+0x68/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
[c00000000015bcec] process_one_work+0x1bc/0x5f0
[c00000000015ecac] worker_thread+0xac/0x6b0
[c000000000168338] kthread+0x168/0x1b0
[c00000000000b628] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xb4

This happens because firstly the CPU is not really offline in the
usual sense, processes and interrupts have not been migrated away.
Secondly smp_send_stop does not happen atomically on all CPUs, so
one CPU can have marked itself offline, while another CPU is still
running processes or interrupts which can affect the first CPU.

Fix this by just not marking the CPU as offline. It's more like
frozen in time, so offline does not really reflect its state properly
anyway. There should be nothing in the crash/panic path that walks
online CPUs and synchronously waits for them, so this change should
not introduce new hangs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

authored by

Nicholas Piggin and committed by
Michael Ellerman
de6e5d38 8c1aef6a

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arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
··· 600 600 nmi_ipi_busy_count--; 601 601 nmi_ipi_unlock(); 602 602 603 - /* Remove this CPU */ 604 - set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), false); 605 - 606 603 spin_begin(); 607 604 while (1) 608 605 spin_cpu_relax(); ··· 614 617 615 618 static void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy) 616 619 { 617 - /* Remove this CPU */ 618 - set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), false); 619 - 620 620 hard_irq_disable(); 621 621 spin_begin(); 622 622 while (1)