On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 03:12:51PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>  static int blk_softirq_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
> -     /*
> -      * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU
> -      * and trigger a run of the softirq
> -      */
> -     local_irq_disable();
> -     list_splice_init(&per_cpu(blk_cpu_done, cpu),
> -                      this_cpu_ptr(&blk_cpu_done));
> -     raise_softirq_irqoff(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ);
> -     local_irq_enable();
> -
> +     blk_complete_reqs(&per_cpu(blk_cpu_done, cpu));
>       return 0;

How can this be preempted?  Can't we keep using this_cpu_ptr here?

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