linux-kernel - make vmstat cpu-unplug safe

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Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 16:02:09 +0900
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: make vmstat cpu-unplug safe


btw: I think all_vm_event() author is Cristoph Lameter, right?


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When access cpu_online_map, We should prevent that dynamically 
change cpu_online_map by get_online_cpus().

Unfortunately, all_vm_events() doesn't it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

---
 mm/vmstat.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: b/mm/vmstat.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmstat.c       2008-05-04 23:00:52.000000000 +0900
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c       2008-05-06 16:13:32.000000000 +0900
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ static void sum_vm_events(unsigned long
 */
 void all_vm_events(unsigned long *ret)
 {
+       get_online_cpus();
        sum_vm_events(ret, &cpu_online_map);
+       put_online_cpus();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(all_vm_events);



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