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| author | Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2012-10-23 01:30:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2012-11-15 00:16:00 +0100 |
| commit | 5e5041f3527b36b58e864886ba34c179ad40ff92 (patch) | |
| tree | 16857e196f4d02f89d2934f5a59bc41fa52ef451 /kernel/cpu.c | |
| parent | 73d4511a5f1e208399b2f7a058b73578c1977611 (diff) | |
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ACPI / processor: prevent cpu from becoming online
Even if acpi_processor_handle_eject() offlines cpu, there is a chance
to online the cpu after that. So the patch closes the window by using
get/put_online_cpus().
Why does the patch change _cpu_up() logic?
The patch cares the race of hot-remove cpu and _cpu_up(). If the patch
does not change it, there is the following race.
hot-remove cpu | _cpu_up()
------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
call acpi_processor_handle_eject() |
call cpu_down() |
call get_online_cpus() |
| call cpu_hotplug_begin() and stop here
call arch_unregister_cpu() |
call acpi_unmap_lsapic() |
call put_online_cpus() |
| start and continue _cpu_up()
return acpi_processor_remove() |
continue hot-remove the cpu |
So _cpu_up() can continue to itself. And hot-remove cpu can also continue
itself. If the patch changes _cpu_up() logic, the race disappears as below:
hot-remove cpu | _cpu_up()
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
call acpi_processor_handle_eject() |
call cpu_down() |
call get_online_cpus() |
| call cpu_hotplug_begin() and stop here
call arch_unregister_cpu() |
call acpi_unmap_lsapic() |
cpu's cpu_present is set |
to false by set_cpu_present()|
call put_online_cpus() |
| start _cpu_up()
| check cpu_present() and return -EINVAL
return acpi_processor_remove() |
continue hot-remove the cpu |
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cpu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cpu.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 42bd331ee0ab..f45657f1eb8e 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -348,11 +348,13 @@ static int __cpuinit _cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen) unsigned long mod = tasks_frozen ? CPU_TASKS_FROZEN : 0; struct task_struct *idle; - if (cpu_online(cpu) || !cpu_present(cpu)) - return -EINVAL; - cpu_hotplug_begin(); + if (cpu_online(cpu) || !cpu_present(cpu)) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + idle = idle_thread_get(cpu); if (IS_ERR(idle)) { ret = PTR_ERR(idle); |