sched: fix hrtick_start_fair and CPU-Hotplug

Gautham R Shenoy reported:

 > While running the usual CPU-Hotplug stress tests on linux-2.6.25,
 > I noticed the following in the console logs.
 >
 > This is a wee bit difficult to reproduce. In the past 10 runs I hit this
 > only once.
 >
 > ------------[ cut here ]------------
 >
 > WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:962 hrtick+0x2e/0x65()
 >
 > Just wondering if we are doing a good job at handling the cancellation
 > of any per-cpu scheduler timers during CPU-Hotplug.

This looks like its indeed not cancelled at all and migrates the it to
another cpu. Fix it via a proper hotplug notifier mechanism.

Reported-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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