From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Satoru Takeuchi Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:49:54 +0000 Subject: [BUGFIX] [PATH 2/2] cpu-hotplug: Releasing `workqueue_mutex' properly on CPU hot-remove Message-Id: <87lkn2vxrh.wl%takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64 , Linux Kernel Cc: Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Satoru Takeuchi Releasing `workqueue_mutex' properly on CPU hot-remove. _cpu_down() acquires `workqueue_mutex' on its process, but doen't release it if __cpu_disable() fails. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi Index: linux-2.6.19-rc3/kernel/cpu.c =================================--- linux-2.6.19-rc3.orig/kernel/cpu.c 2006-10-24 14:01:39.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc3/kernel/cpu.c 2006-10-27 19:38:14.000000000 +0900 @@ -150,18 +150,18 @@ p = __stop_machine_run(take_cpu_down, NULL, cpu); mutex_unlock(&cpu_bitmask_lock); - if (IS_ERR(p)) { + if (IS_ERR(p) || cpu_online(cpu)) { /* CPU didn't die: tell everyone. Can't complain. */ if (raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_chain, CPU_DOWN_FAILED, (void *)(long)cpu) = NOTIFY_BAD) BUG(); - err = PTR_ERR(p); - goto out_allowed; - } - - if (cpu_online(cpu)) + if (IS_ERR(p)) { + err = PTR_ERR(p); + goto out_allowed; + } goto out_thread; + } /* Wait for it to sleep (leaving idle task). */ while (!idle_cpu(cpu))