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: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- block/blk-softirq.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/blk-softirq.c b/block/blk-softirq.c index 467c8de..bbab3d3 100644 --- a/block/blk-softirq.c +++ b/block/blk-softirq.c @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static void trigger_softirq(void *data) */ static int raise_blk_irq(int cpu, struct request *rq) { + get_online_cpus_atomic(); if (cpu_online(cpu)) { struct call_single_data *data = &rq->csd; @@ -66,8 +67,10 @@ static int raise_blk_irq(int cpu, struct request *rq) data->flags = 0; __smp_call_function_single(cpu, data, 0); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); return 0; } + put_online_cpus_atomic(); return 1; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/