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;
 }

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