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Remove the big kernel lock from msr_open() as it doesn't protect anything there. The only racy event that can happen here is a concurrent cpu shutdown. So let's look at what could be racy during/after the above event: - The cpu_online() check is racy, but the bkl doesn't help about that anyway it disables preemption but we may be chcking another cpu than the current one. Also the cpu can still become offlined between open and read calls. - The cpu_data(cpu) returns a safe pointer too. It won't be released on cpu offlining. But some fields can be changed from arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:remove_siblinginfo() : - phys_proc_id - cpu_core_id Those are not read from msr_open(). What we are checking is the x86_capability that is left untouched on offlining. So this removal looks safe. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1254944602-7382-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
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