From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Srivatsa S. Bhat) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:06:55 +0530 Subject: [PATCH v5 15/45] tick: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline In-Reply-To: <20130122073210.13822.50434.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20130122073210.13822.50434.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20130122073653.13822.14127.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able to depend on preempt_disable() or local_irq_disable() to prevent CPUs from going offline from under us. Use the get/put_online_cpus_atomic() APIs to prevent CPUs from going offline, while invoking from atomic context. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index f113755..d123a2c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static void tick_do_broadcast(struct cpumask *mask) */ static void tick_do_periodic_broadcast(void) { + get_online_cpus_atomic(); raw_spin_lock(&tick_broadcast_lock); cpumask_and(to_cpumask(tmpmask), @@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ static void tick_do_periodic_broadcast(void) tick_do_broadcast(to_cpumask(tmpmask)); raw_spin_unlock(&tick_broadcast_lock); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); } /*