Commit 313c8c16 authored by Alex Shi's avatar Alex Shi Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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PM / CPU: replace raw_notifier with atomic_notifier

This patch replaces an rwlock and raw notifier by an atomic notifier
protected by a spin_lock and RCU.

The main reason for this change is due to a 'scheduling while atomic'
bug with RT kernels on ARM/ARM64. On ARM/ARM64, the rwlock
cpu_pm_notifier_lock in cpu_pm_enter/exit() causes a potential
schedule after IRQ disable in the idle call chain:

cpu_startup_entry
  cpu_idle_loop
    local_irq_disable()
    cpuidle_idle_call
      call_cpuidle
        cpuidle_enter
          cpuidle_enter_state
            ->enter :arm_enter_idle_state
              cpu_pm_enter/exit
                CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER
                  read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock); <-- sleep in idle
                     __rt_spin_lock();
                        schedule();

The kernel panic is here:
[    4.609601] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0x00000002
[    4.609608] [<ffff0000086fae70>] arm_enter_idle_state+0x18/0x70
[    4.609614] Modules linked in:
[    4.609615] [...
parent 16f73eb0
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