Re: [BUG] using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

[Ingo Molnar]

* Luis Henriques <henrix@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> while running latencytop, got the following:
> 
> [  775.663239] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: latencytop/6585
> [  775.663303] caller is native_sched_clock+0x3a/0x80
> [  775.663314] Pid: 6585, comm: latencytop Tainted: G        W 2.6.28-rc4-00355-g9c7c354 #1
> [  775.663322] Call Trace:
> [  775.663343]  [<ffffffff803a94e4>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe4/0xf0
> [  775.663356]  [<ffffffff80213f7a>] native_sched_clock+0x3a/0x80
> [  775.663368]  [<ffffffff80213e19>] sched_clock+0x9/0x10
> [  775.663381]  [<ffffffff8024550d>] proc_sched_show_task+0x8bd/0x10e0
> [  775.663395]  [<ffffffff8034466e>] sched_show+0x3e/0x80
> [  775.663408]  [<ffffffff8031039b>] seq_read+0xdb/0x350
> [  775.663421]  [<ffffffff80368776>] ? security_file_permission+0x16/0x20
> [  775.663435]  [<ffffffff802f4198>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x170
> [  775.663447]  [<ffffffff802f4335>] sys_read+0x55/0x90
> [  775.663460]  [<ffffffff8020c67a>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> ...
> 
> I am running 2.6.28-rc4-00355-g9c7c354 and, after taking a look at 
> the code, it looks like the problem is in commit 
> 7cbaef9c83e58bbd4bdd534b09052b6c5ec457d5, where native_sched_clock 
> is modified to use __cycles_2_ns instead of cycles_2_ns.

indeed. Does the fix below work for you?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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