Mark Langsdorf reported:

> One of my co-workers noticed that the powernow-k8
> driver no longer restarts when a CPU core is
> hot-disabled and then hot-enabled on AMD quad-core
> systems.
>
> The following comands work fine on 2.6.26 and fail
> on 2.6.27-rc1:
>
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> find /sys -name cpufreq
>
> For 2.6.26, the find will return a cpufreq
> directory for each processor.  In 2.6.27-rc1,
> the cpu3 directory is missing.
>
> After digging through the code, the following
> logic is failing when the core is hot-enabled
> at runtime.  The code works during the boot
> sequence.
>
>       cpumask_t = current->cpus_allowed;
>       set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &cpumask_of_cpu(cpu));
>       if (smp_processor_id() != cpu)
>               return -ENODEV;

So set the CPU active before calling the CPU_ONLINE notifier chain,
there are a handful of notifiers that use set_cpus_allowed().

This fix also solves the problem with x86-microcode. I've sent
alternative patches for microcode, but as this "rely on
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() being workable in cpu-hotplug(CPU_ONLINE, ...)"
assumption seems to be more broad than what we thought, perhaps this fix
should be applied.

With this patch we define that by the moment CPU_ONLINE is being sent,
a 'cpu' is online and ready for tasks to be migrated onto it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>