Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)

Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index ba5070ce576..5b0951aa049 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct cpu_stopper {
 };
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stopper, cpu_stopper);
+static bool stop_machine_initialized = false;
 
 static void cpu_stop_init_done(struct cpu_stop_done *done, unsigned int nr_todo)
 {
@@ -386,6 +387,8 @@ static int __init cpu_stop_init(void)
 	cpu_stop_cpu_callback(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, bcpu);
 	register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier);
 
+	stop_machine_initialized = true;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 early_initcall(cpu_stop_init);
@@ -485,6 +488,25 @@ int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus)
 					    .num_threads = num_online_cpus(),
 					    .active_cpus = cpus };
 
+	if (!stop_machine_initialized) {
+		/*
+		 * Handle the case where stop_machine() is called
+		 * early in boot before stop_machine() has been
+		 * initialized.
+		 */
+		unsigned long flags;
+		int ret;
+
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(smdata.num_threads != 1);
+
+		local_irq_save(flags);
+		hard_irq_disable();
+		ret = (*fn)(data);
+		local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+		return ret;
+	}
+
 	/* Set the initial state and stop all online cpus. */
 	set_state(&smdata, STOPMACHINE_PREPARE);
 	return stop_cpus(cpu_online_mask, stop_machine_cpu_stop, &smdata);