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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/timer.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 15ffdb3..5db594c 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires, timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(timer); BUG_ON(!timer->function); + get_online_cpus_atomic(); base = lock_timer_base(timer, &flags); ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, false); @@ -768,6 +769,7 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires, out_unlock: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); return ret; } @@ -926,6 +928,7 @@ void add_timer_on(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu) timer_stats_timer_set_start_info(timer); BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer->function); + get_online_cpus_atomic(); spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock, flags); timer_set_base(timer, base); debug_activate(timer, timer->expires); @@ -940,6 +943,7 @@ void add_timer_on(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu) */ wake_up_nohz_cpu(cpu); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_timer_on); -- 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
