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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:14:28 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mingo@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, namhyung@...nel.org, vincent.guittot@...aro.org, tj@...nel.org, oleg@...hat.com Cc: sbw@....edu, amit.kucheria@...aro.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, rjw@...k.pl, srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] yield_to(), cpu-hotplug: Prevent offlining of other CPUs properly Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able to depend on local_irq_save() to prevent CPUs from going offline from under us. Use the get/put_online_cpus_atomic_light() APIs to prevent changes to the cpu_online_mask, while invoking from atomic context. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 84a8579..1ef595a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4312,6 +4312,7 @@ bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt) unsigned long flags; bool yielded = 0; + get_online_cpus_atomic_light(); local_irq_save(flags); rq = this_rq(); @@ -4339,13 +4340,14 @@ again: * Make p's CPU reschedule; pick_next_entity takes care of * fairness. */ - if (preempt && rq != p_rq) + if (preempt && rq != p_rq && cpu_online(task_cpu(p))) resched_task(p_rq->curr); } out: double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq); local_irq_restore(flags); + put_online_cpus_atomic_light(); if (yielded) schedule(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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