[PATCH] arch/tile: don't wait for migrating PTEs in an NMI handler

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Fri Mar 30 2012 - 18:57:16 EST


Doing so raises the possibility of self-deadlock if we are waiting
for a backtrace for an oprofile or perf interrupt while we are
in the middle of migrating our own stack page.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/tile/mm/fault.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/fault.c b/arch/tile/mm/fault.c
index 5f1fdeb..bcba159 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/fault.c
@@ -204,9 +204,14 @@ static pgd_t *get_current_pgd(void)
* interrupt or a critical region, and must do as little as possible.
* Similarly, we can't use atomic ops here, since we may be handling a
* fault caused by an atomic op access.
+ *
+ * If we find a migrating PTE while we're in an NMI context, and we're
+ * at a PC that has a registered exception handler, we don't wait,
+ * since this thread may (e.g.) have been interrupted while migrating
+ * its own stack, which would then cause us to self-deadlock.
*/
static int handle_migrating_pte(pgd_t *pgd, int fault_num,
- unsigned long address,
+ unsigned long address, unsigned long pc,
int is_kernel_mode, int write)
{
pud_t *pud;
@@ -228,6 +233,8 @@ static int handle_migrating_pte(pgd_t *pgd, int fault_num,
pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address);
pteval = *pte;
if (pte_migrating(pteval)) {
+ if (in_nmi() && search_exception_tables(pc))
+ return 0;
wait_for_migration(pte);
return 1;
}
@@ -301,7 +308,7 @@ static int handle_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
* rather than trying to patch up the existing PTE.
*/
pgd = get_current_pgd();
- if (handle_migrating_pte(pgd, fault_num, address,
+ if (handle_migrating_pte(pgd, fault_num, address, regs->pc,
is_kernel_mode, write))
return 1;

@@ -666,7 +673,7 @@ struct intvec_state do_page_fault_ics(struct pt_regs *regs, int fault_num,
*/
if (fault_num == INT_DTLB_ACCESS)
write = 1;
- if (handle_migrating_pte(pgd, fault_num, address, 1, write))
+ if (handle_migrating_pte(pgd, fault_num, address, pc, 1, write))
return state;

/* Return zero so that we continue on with normal fault handling. */
--
1.6.5.2

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