On 10.03.2020 19:06, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
> During CPU down operation RCU callbacks are scheduled to finish
> off some actions later as soon as CPU is fully dead (the same applies
> to CPU up operation in case error path is taken). If in the same grace
> period another CPU up operation is performed on the same CPU, RCU callback
> will be called later on a CPU in a potentially wrong (already up again
> instead of still being down) state leading to eventual state inconsistency
> and/or crash.
> 
> In order to avoid it - flush RCU callbacks explicitly before starting the
> next CPU up/down operation.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhi...@citrix.com>

(Nit: These preferably would come in inverse order.)

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>

Jan

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