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| author |   Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-10-08 16:28:20 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:22:15 +0900 |
| commit | 075663d19885eb3738fd2d7dbdb8947e12563b68 (patch) | |
| tree | 99454962711f19b24b5b4642b6a95a6551731228 /include/linux/gfp.h | |
| parent | Kconfig: clean up the "#if defined(arch)" list for exception-trace sysctl entry (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-075663d19885eb3738fd2d7dbdb8947e12563b68.tar.xz linux-dev-075663d19885eb3738fd2d7dbdb8947e12563b68.zip | |
CPU hotplug, debug: detect imbalance between get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus()
The synchronization between CPU hotplug readers and writers is achieved
by means of refcounting, safeguarded by the cpu_hotplug.lock.
get_online_cpus() increments the refcount, whereas put_online_cpus()
decrements it. If we ever hit an imbalance between the two, we end up
compromising the guarantees of the hotplug synchronization i.e, for
example, an extra call to put_online_cpus() can end up allowing a
hotplug reader to execute concurrently with a hotplug writer.
So, add a WARN_ON() in put_online_cpus() to detect such cases where the
refcount can go negative, and also attempt to fix it up, so that we can
continue to run.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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