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.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
index e779642..29f58cf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ void switch_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *prev, struct
mm_struct *next)
/* No lockless fast path .. yet */
raw_spin_lock(&context_lock);
+ get_online_cpus_atomic();
pr_hard("[%d] activating context for mm @%p, active=%d, id=%d",
cpu, next, next->context.active, next->context.id);
@@ -279,6 +280,7 @@ void switch_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *prev, struct
mm_struct *next)
/* Flick the MMU and release lock */
pr_hardcont(" -> %d\n", id);
set_context(id, next->pgd);
+ put_online_cpus_atomic();
raw_spin_unlock(&context_lock);
}
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