Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:01:20 +0200 | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | [patch 13/20] powerpc/powernv: Use stop_machine_locked() |
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set_subcores_per_core() holds get_online_cpus() while invoking stop_machine().
stop_machine() invokes get_online_cpus() as well. This is correct, but prevents the conversion of the hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem.
Use stop_machine_locked() to avoid the nested call.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
--- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static int set_subcores_per_core(int new /* Ensure state is consistent before we call the other cpus */ mb(); - stop_machine(cpu_update_split_mode, &new_mode, cpu_online_mask); + stop_machine_locked(cpu_update_split_mode, &new_mode, cpu_online_mask); put_online_cpus();
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