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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: de...@driverdev.osuosl.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
index 34afc16..8588b4d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <linux/prefetch.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <net/dst.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ static void cvm_oct_enable_one_cpu(void)
return;
/* ... if a CPU is available, Turn on NAPI polling for that CPU. */
+ get_online_cpus_atomic();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
if (!cpu_test_and_set(cpu, core_state.cpu_state)) {
v = smp_call_function_single(cpu, cvm_oct_enable_napi,
@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ static void cvm_oct_enable_one_cpu(void)
break;
}
}
+ put_online_cpus_atomic();
}
static void cvm_oct_no_more_work(void)
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