This can be avoided by setting up the cpu hotplug state with nocalls and
move the initialization to the watchdog_nmi_probe() function. That
initializes the hotplug callbacks without invoking the callback and the
following core initialization function then configures the watchdog for the
online CPUs (in this case CPU0) via softlockup_reconfigure_threads().
Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org