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Commit 70ff0555 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Fix PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPU



PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPU is broken.  The rcu_online_cpu is called
to initially populate rcu_cpu_online_map with all online CPUs when the
hotplug event handler is installed, and also to populate the map with
CPUs as they come online.  The former case is meant to happen with and
without HOTPLUG_CPU, but without HOTPLUG_CPU, the rcu_offline_cpu
function is no-oped -- while it still gets called, it does not set the
rcu CPU map.

With a blank RCU CPU map, grace periods get to tick by completely
oblivious to active RCU read side critical sections.  This results in
free-before-grace bugs.

Fix is obvious once the problem is known. (Also, change __devinit to
__cpuinit so the function gets thrown away on !HOTPLUG_CPU kernels).

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Nick is my personal hero of the day - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent eb6d42ea
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