Once stop_machine() is gone from the CPU offline path, we won't be able to depend on preempt_disable() or local_irq_disable() 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. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index f113755..d123a2c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static void tick_do_broadcast(struct cpumask *mask) */ static void tick_do_periodic_broadcast(void) { + get_online_cpus_atomic(); raw_spin_lock(&tick_broadcast_lock); cpumask_and(to_cpumask(tmpmask), @@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ static void tick_do_periodic_broadcast(void) tick_do_broadcast(to_cpumask(tmpmask)); raw_spin_unlock(&tick_broadcast_lock); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html