[PATCH 1/3] percpu: fix percpu accessors to potentially !cpu_possible() cpus: m32r

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Fri Nov 21 2008 - 05:39:19 EST


Impact: CPU iterator bugfixes

Percpu areas are only allocated for possible cpus. In general, you
shouldn't access random cpu's percpu areas.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- test-compile.orig/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ test-compile/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int m
* accounting. At that time they also adjust their APIC timers
* accordingly.
*/
- for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; ++i)
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i)
per_cpu(prof_multiplier, i) = multiplier;

return 0;


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