linux-kernel - [git pull] scheduler fix

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Message-ID: <20090217164025.GA4539@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:40:25 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: [git pull] scheduler fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest sched-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git sched-fixes-for-linus

 Thanks,

	Ingo

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Ingo Molnar (1):
      sched: cpu hotplug fix


 kernel/sched.c |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index c1d0ed3..410eec4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6944,20 +6944,26 @@ static void free_rootdomain(struct root_domain *rd)
 
 static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
 {
+	struct root_domain *old_rd = NULL;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
 
 	if (rq->rd) {
-		struct root_domain *old_rd = rq->rd;
+		old_rd = rq->rd;
 
 		if (cpumask_test_cpu(rq->cpu, old_rd->online))
 			set_rq_offline(rq);
 
 		cpumask_clear_cpu(rq->cpu, old_rd->span);
 
-		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&old_rd->refcount))
-			free_rootdomain(old_rd);
+		/*
+		 * If we dont want to free the old_rt yet then
+		 * set old_rd to NULL to skip the freeing later
+		 * in this function:
+		 */
+		if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&old_rd->refcount))
+			old_rd = NULL;
 	}
 
 	atomic_inc(&rd->refcount);
@@ -6968,6 +6974,9 @@ static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
 		set_rq_online(rq);
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
+
+	if (old_rd)
+		free_rootdomain(old_rd);
 }
 
 static int __init_refok init_rootdomain(struct root_domain *rd, bool bootmem)
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