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: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/percpu_counter.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter.c b/lib/percpu_counter.c index ba6085d..9cf9086 100644 --- a/lib/percpu_counter.c +++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc) s64 ret; int cpu; + get_online_cpus_atomic(); raw_spin_lock(&fbc->lock); ret = fbc->count; for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc) ret += *pcount; } raw_spin_unlock(&fbc->lock); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__percpu_counter_sum); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html