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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:06:55 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org, oleg@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mingo@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, namhyung@...nel.org Cc: rostedt@...dmis.org, wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rjw@...k.pl, sbw@....edu, fweisbec@...il.com, linux@....linux.org.uk, nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v5 15/45] tick: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline 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 <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> --- 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(); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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