work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.

Impact: remove potential circular lock dependency with cpu hotplug lock

This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu
hotplug locking issues.

Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but
if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using
set_cpus_allowed without locking.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 2f445833ae3..a35afdbc016 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -991,8 +991,8 @@ static void do_work_for_cpu(struct work_struct *w)
  * @fn: the function to run
  * @arg: the function arg
  *
- * This will return -EINVAL in the cpu is not online, or the return value
- * of @fn otherwise.
+ * This will return the value @fn returns.
+ * It is up to the caller to ensure that the cpu doesn't go offline.
  */
 long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
 {
@@ -1001,14 +1001,8 @@ long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
         INIT_WORK(&wfc.work, do_work_for_cpu);
         wfc.fn = fn;
         wfc.arg = arg;
-        get_online_cpus();
-        if (unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu)))
-                wfc.ret = -EINVAL;
-        else {
-                schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work);
-                flush_work(&wfc.work);
-        }
-        put_online_cpus();
+        schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work);
+        flush_work(&wfc.work);
 
         return wfc.ret;
 }