On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 16:51 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> What I can't figure out is why we don't need get/put_online_cpus()
> pair around each and every call
> to on_each_cpu everywhere? and if we do, perhaps making it a part of
> on_each_cpu is the way to go?
>
> Something like:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
> index f66a1b2..cfa3882 100644
> --- a/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -691,11 +691,15 @@ void on_each_cpu(void (*func) (void *info), void
> *info, int wait)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
>
> + BUG_ON(in_atomic());
> +
> + get_online_cpus();
> preempt_disable();
Your preempt_disable() here serializes against hotplug..
> smp_call_function(func, info, wait);
> local_irq_save(flags);
> func(info);
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> preempt_enable();
> + put_online_cpus();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(on_each_cpu);
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