Merge branch 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

[cascardo/linux.git] / kernel / smpboot.c

diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index 13bc43d..4a5c6e7 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ __smpboot_create_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *ht, unsigned int cpu)
                kfree(td);
                return PTR_ERR(tsk);
        }
+       /*
+        * Park the thread so that it could start right on the CPU
+        * when it is available.
+        */
+       kthread_park(tsk);
        get_task_struct(tsk);
        *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu) = tsk;
        if (ht->create) {