On 07/26/2012 02:50 AM, Colin Cross wrote:
> The cpu hotplug notifier gets called in both atomic and non-atomic
> contexts, it is not always safe to lock a mutex.  Filter out all events
> except the six necessary ones, which are all sleepable, before taking
> the mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccr...@android.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c b/drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c
> index 2c9bf26..c24dda0 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c
> @@ -678,6 +678,18 @@ static int cpuidle_coupled_cpu_notify(struct 
> notifier_block *nb,
>       int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
>       struct cpuidle_device *dev;
> 
> +     switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
> +     case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
> +     case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
> +     case CPU_ONLINE:
> +     case CPU_DEAD:
> +     case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
> +     case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
> +             break;
> +     default:
> +             return NOTIFY_OK;
> +     }
> +

Instead, wouldn't it be better to have case statements for the
2 cases that imply atomic context and return immediately?

Something like:
        switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
        case CPU_STARTING:
        case CPU_DYING:
                return NOTIFY_OK;
        }

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

>       mutex_lock(&cpuidle_lock);
> 
>       dev = per_cpu(cpuidle_devices, cpu);
> 

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