CPU hotplug, debug: detect imbalance between get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus()
The synchronization between CPU hotplug readers and writers is achieved
by means of refcounting, safeguarded by the cpu_hotplug.lock.
get_online_cpus() increments the refcount, whereas put_online_cpus()
decrements it. If we ever hit an imbalance between the two, we end up
compromising the guarantees of the hotplug synchronization i.e, for
example, an extra call to put_online_cpus() can end up allowing a
hotplug reader to execute concurrently with a hotplug writer.
So, add a WARN_ON() in put_online_cpus() to detect such cases where the
refcount can go negative, and also attempt to fix it up, so that we can
continue to run.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index f560598..42bd331 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@
if (cpu_hotplug.active_writer == current)
return;
mutex_lock(&cpu_hotplug.lock);
+
+ if (WARN_ON(!cpu_hotplug.refcount))
+ cpu_hotplug.refcount++; /* try to fix things up */
+
if (!--cpu_hotplug.refcount && unlikely(cpu_hotplug.active_writer))
wake_up_process(cpu_hotplug.active_writer);
mutex_unlock(&cpu_hotplug.lock);