[PATCH 2/4] hotplug, x86: Add hotplug lock to missing places

Toshi Kani toshi.kani at hp.com
Tue Aug 20 00:53:44 EST 2013


On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 16:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:46:57PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > lock_device_hotplug() serializes CPU & Memory online/offline and hotplug
> > operations.  However, this lock is not held in the debug interfaces below
> > that initiate CPU online/offline operations.
> > 
> >  - _debug_hotplug_cpu(), cpu0 hotplug test interface enabled by
> >    CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0.
> >  - cpu_probe_store() and cpu_release_store(), cpu hotplug test interface
> >    enabled by CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE.
> > 
> > This patch changes the above interfaces to hold lock_device_hotplug().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani at hp.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/topology.c |    2 ++
> >  drivers/base/cpu.c         |   16 ++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

Thanks Greg!
-Toshi





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