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authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>2008-08-12 04:05:13 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-12 05:21:27 -0400
commitc2fc11985db304572322f1dcdcb0f71337315006 (patch)
tree330196cefd4eb0ad3b4999fb14518a62f0294d93 /kernel/smp.c
parent23a0ee908cbfba3264d19729c67c22b20fa73886 (diff)
generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask(), fix
> > Nick Piggin (1): > > generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in > > smp_call_function_mask() > > I'm still not 100% sure that I have this patch right... I might have seen > a lockup trace implicating the smp call function path... which may have > been due to some other problem or a different bug in the new call function > code, but if some more people can take a look at it before merging? OK indeed it did have a couple of bugs. Firstly, I wasn't freeing the data properly in the alloc && wait case. Secondly, I wasn't resetting CSD_FLAG_WAIT in the for each cpu loop (so only the first CPU would wait). After those fixes, the patch boots and runs with the kmalloc commented out (so it always executes the slowpath). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/smp.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smp.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index e6084f6efb4d..782e2b93e465 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ void generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(void)
135 */ 135 */
136 smp_wmb(); 136 smp_wmb();
137 data->csd.flags &= ~CSD_FLAG_WAIT; 137 data->csd.flags &= ~CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
138 } else 138 }
139 if (data->csd.flags & CSD_FLAG_ALLOC)
139 call_rcu(&data->rcu_head, rcu_free_call_data); 140 call_rcu(&data->rcu_head, rcu_free_call_data);
140 } 141 }
141 rcu_read_unlock(); 142 rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -289,10 +290,11 @@ static void smp_call_function_mask_quiesce_stack(cpumask_t mask)
289 290
290 data.func = quiesce_dummy; 291 data.func = quiesce_dummy;
291 data.info = NULL; 292 data.info = NULL;
292 data.flags = CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
293 293
294 for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask) 294 for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask) {
295 data.flags = CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
295 generic_exec_single(cpu, &data); 296 generic_exec_single(cpu, &data);
297 }
296} 298}
297 299
298/** 300/**
@@ -371,7 +373,7 @@ int smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t mask, void (*func)(void *), void *info,
371 if (wait) { 373 if (wait) {
372 csd_flag_wait(&data->csd); 374 csd_flag_wait(&data->csd);
373 if (unlikely(slowpath)) 375 if (unlikely(slowpath))
374 smp_call_function_mask_quiesce_stack(allbutself); 376 smp_call_function_mask_quiesce_stack(mask);
375 } 377 }
376 378
377 return 0; 379 return 0;