Re: [PATCH] cpu_up: hold zonelists_mutex when build_all_zonelists

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:23:16 +0800
Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Here is another issue, we should always hold zonelists_mutex when calling build_all_zonelists
> unless system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING.

Taking a global mutex in the cpu-hotplug code is worrisome.  Perhaps
because of the two years spent weeding out strange deadlocks between
cpu-hotplug and cpufreq.

Has this change been carefully and fully tested with lockdep enabled
(please)?

> --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> @@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ int __cpuinit cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
>                  return -ENOMEM;
>          }
> 
> -       if (pgdat->node_zonelists->_zonerefs->zone == NULL)
> +       if (pgdat->node_zonelists->_zonerefs->zone == NULL) {
> +               mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
>                  build_all_zonelists(NULL);
> +               mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
> +       }

Your email client is performing space-stuffing and it replaces tabs
with spaces.  This requires me to edit the patches rather a lot,
which is dull.


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