Preempt & smp_processor_id in __make_request

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Tue Jul 26 2011 - 05:30:04 EST


Hi,

On the latest upstream kernel, I'm getting large quantities of messages
as per the following:

Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00
000000] code: jbd2/dm-0-8/1546
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: caller is __make_request+0x209/0x350
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: Pid: 1546, comm: jbd2/dm-0-8 Tainted: G W
3.0.0+ #252
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff813db897>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe7
/0x100
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff813b6f29>] __make_request+0x209/0x350
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff8154635e>] ? dm_request+0x2e/0x280
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff813b3ffb>] generic_make_request+0x27b/
0x550
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff8123ef7e>] ? jbd2_journal_file_buffer+
0x8e/0x130
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff813b432f>] submit_bio+0x5f/0xd0
Jul 26 09:54:04 chywoon kernel: [<ffffffff811b14a6>] submit_bh+0xe6/0x120
etc.

The (trivial) fix appears to be the following:

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index f8cb099..f925581 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ get_rq:

if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, &q->queue_flags) ||
bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CPU_AFFINE))
- req->cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ req->cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();

plug = current->plug;
if (plug) {

However this fixes the symptoms, rather than the cause, so I'm not at
all sure that this is the correct solution,

Steve.


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