make vmstat cpu-unplug safe

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 03:02:35 EST



btw: I think all_vm_event() author is Cristoph Lameter, right?


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When access cpu_online_map, We should prevent that dynamically
change cpu_online_map by get_online_cpus().

Unfortunately, all_vm_events() doesn't it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

---
mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: b/mm/vmstat.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmstat.c 2008-05-04 23:00:52.000000000 +0900
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c 2008-05-06 16:13:32.000000000 +0900
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ static void sum_vm_events(unsigned long
*/
void all_vm_events(unsigned long *ret)
{
+ get_online_cpus();
sum_vm_events(ret, &cpu_online_map);
+ put_online_cpus();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(all_vm_events);



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