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[v2,22/45] percpu_counter: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline

Message ID 20130625202943.16593.52711.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Srivatsa S. Bhat June 25, 2013, 8:29 p.m. UTC 
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@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 lib/percpu_counter.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)


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diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter.c b/lib/percpu_counter.c
index ba6085d..f5e718d 100644
--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@  s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
 	s64 ret;
 	int cpu;
 
+	/*
+	 * The calls to get/put_online_cpus_atomic() is strictly not
+	 * necessary, since CPU hotplug is explicitly handled via the
+	 * hotplug callback which synchronizes through fbc->lock.
+	 * But we add them here anyway to make it easier for the debug
+	 * code under CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU to validate the correctness
+	 * of hotplug synchronization.
+	 */
+	get_online_cpus_atomic();
 	raw_spin_lock(&fbc->lock);
 	ret = fbc->count;
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -105,6 +114,7 @@  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);