Re: [PATCH] x86: call stop_machine_text_poke() on all CPUs

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Oct 27 2011 - 22:28:48 EST


(2011/10/27 16:54), Rabin Vincent wrote:
> It appears that stop_machine_text_poke() wants to be called on all CPUs,
> like it's done from text_poke_smp(). Fix text_poke_smp_batch() to do
> this.

cpu_mask==NULL finally falls back to cpu_online_mask, but even though
it should be specified correctly.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
> index c638228..1f84794 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
> @@ -738,5 +738,5 @@ void __kprobes text_poke_smp_batch(struct text_poke_param *params, int n)
>
> atomic_set(&stop_machine_first, 1);
> wrote_text = 0;
> - __stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
> + __stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, cpu_online_mask);
> }


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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