nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
authorLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sun, 28 Apr 2013 03:25:58 +0000 (11:25 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:17:33 +0000 (13:17 +0200)
I saw following error when testing the latest nohz code on
Power:

[   85.295384] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rsyslogd/3493
[   85.295396] caller is .tick_nohz_task_switch+0x1c/0xb8
[   85.295402] Call Trace:
[   85.295408] [c0000001fababab0] [c000000000012dc4] .show_stack+0x110/0x25c (unreliable)
[   85.295420] [c0000001fababba0] [c0000000007c4b54] .dump_stack+0x20/0x30
[   85.295430] [c0000001fababc10] [c00000000044eb74] .debug_smp_processor_id+0xf4/0x124
[   85.295438] [c0000001fababca0] [c0000000000d7594] .tick_nohz_task_switch+0x1c/0xb8
[   85.295447] [c0000001fababd20] [c0000000000b9748] .finish_task_switch+0x13c/0x160
[   85.295455] [c0000001fababdb0] [c0000000000bbe50] .schedule_tail+0x50/0x124
[   85.295463] [c0000001fababe30] [c000000000009dc8] .ret_from_fork+0x4/0x54

The code below moves the test into local_irq_save/restore
section to avoid the above complaint.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367119558.6391.34.camel@ThinkPad-T5421.cn.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c

index da53c8f..1c9f53b 100644 (file)
@@ -251,14 +251,15 @@ void tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
-               return;
-
        local_irq_save(flags);
 
+       if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
+               goto out;
+
        if (tick_nohz_tick_stopped() && !can_stop_full_tick())
                tick_nohz_full_kick();
 
+out:
        local_irq_restore(flags);
 }