Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able to depend on disabling preemption 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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c index fdc3ba2..3229c4f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>, XenSource Inc, 2007 */ #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/highmem.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include <linux/bug.h> @@ -1163,9 +1164,13 @@ static void xen_drop_mm_ref(struct mm_struct *mm) */ static void xen_exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) { - get_cpu(); /* make sure we don't move around */ + /* + * Make sure we don't move around, and also prevent CPUs from + * going offline. + */ + get_online_cpus_atomic(); xen_drop_mm_ref(mm); - put_cpu(); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
