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. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c index e779642..29f58cf 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ void switch_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next) /* No lockless fast path .. yet */ raw_spin_lock(&context_lock); + get_online_cpus_atomic(); pr_hard("[%d] activating context for mm @%p, active=%d, id=%d", cpu, next, next->context.active, next->context.id); @@ -279,6 +280,7 @@ void switch_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next) /* Flick the MMU and release lock */ pr_hardcont(" -> %d\n", id); set_context(id, next->pgd); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); raw_spin_unlock(&context_lock); } -- 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