linux-kernel - Re: [patch V3 28/32] s390: Prevent hotplug rwsem recursion

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Message-Id: <20170524105737.GE5427@osiris>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 12:57:37 +0200
From:   Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch V3 28/32] s390: Prevent hotplug rwsem recursion

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:15:39AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The text patching functions which are invoked from jump_label and kprobes
> code are protected against cpu hotplug at the call sites.
> 
> Use stop_machine_cpuslocked() to avoid recursion on the cpu hotplug
> rwsem. stop_machine_cpuslocked() contains a lockdep assertion to catch any
> unprotected callers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/s390/kernel/jump_label.c |    2 +-
>  arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c    |    4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>