cpu_idle() needs to be called with preemption disabled. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Chris Metcalf --- arch/tile/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/arch/tile/kernel/smpboot.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/tile/kernel/smpboot.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/tile/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -207,8 +207,6 @@ void __cpuinit online_secondary(void) /* Set up tile-timer clock-event device on this cpu */ setup_tile_timer(); - preempt_enable(); - cpu_idle(); }