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* [PATCH] Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()
@ 2012-10-16  0:31 Paul E. McKenney
  2012-10-16  4:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2012-10-16  0:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: cernekee, torbenh, torvalds, tglx, srivatsa.bhat

The console_cpu_notify( function runs with interrupts disabled in
the CPU_DEAD case.  It therefore cannot block, for example, as will
happen when it calls console_lock().  Therefore, remove the CPU_DEAD
leg of the switch statement to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 66a2ea3..8e23a14 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1889,7 +1889,6 @@ static int __cpuinit console_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
 {
 	switch (action) {
 	case CPU_ONLINE:
-	case CPU_DEAD:
 	case CPU_DYING:
 	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
 	case CPU_UP_CANCELED:


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