linux-kernel - [patch for-3.12] mm, memcg: protect mem_cgroup_read

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Date:	Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:31:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch for-3.12] mm, memcg: protect mem_cgroup_read_events for cpu
 hotplug

for_each_online_cpu() needs the protection of {get,put}_online_cpus() so
cpu_online_mask doesn't change during the iteration.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ static unsigned long mem_cgroup_read_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	unsigned long val = 0;
 	int cpu;
 
+	get_online_cpus();
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		val += per_cpu(memcg->stat->events[idx], cpu);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -873,6 +874,7 @@ static unsigned long mem_cgroup_read_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	val += memcg->nocpu_base.events[idx];
 	spin_unlock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
 #endif
+	put_online_cpus();
 	return val;
 }
 
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