[tip:timers/nohz] nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()

From: tip-bot for Li Zhong
Date: Tue Apr 30 2013 - 02:31:15 EST


Commit-ID: 6296ace467c8640317414ba589b124323806f7ce
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6296ace467c8640317414ba589b124323806f7ce
Author: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:25:58 +0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:17:33 +0200

nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()

I saw following error when testing the latest nohz code on
Power:

[ 85.295384] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rsyslogd/3493
[ 85.295396] caller is .tick_nohz_task_switch+0x1c/0xb8
[ 85.295402] Call Trace:
[ 85.295408] [c0000001fababab0] [c000000000012dc4] .show_stack+0x110/0x25c (unreliable)
[ 85.295420] [c0000001fababba0] [c0000000007c4b54] .dump_stack+0x20/0x30
[ 85.295430] [c0000001fababc10] [c00000000044eb74] .debug_smp_processor_id+0xf4/0x124
[ 85.295438] [c0000001fababca0] [c0000000000d7594] .tick_nohz_task_switch+0x1c/0xb8
[ 85.295447] [c0000001fababd20] [c0000000000b9748] .finish_task_switch+0x13c/0x160
[ 85.295455] [c0000001fababdb0] [c0000000000bbe50] .schedule_tail+0x50/0x124
[ 85.295463] [c0000001fababe30] [c000000000009dc8] .ret_from_fork+0x4/0x54

The code below moves the test into local_irq_save/restore
section to avoid the above complaint.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367119558.6391.34.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index da53c8f..1c9f53b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -251,14 +251,15 @@ void tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned long flags;

- if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
- return;
-
local_irq_save(flags);

+ if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()))
+ goto out;
+
if (tick_nohz_tick_stopped() && !can_stop_full_tick())
tick_nohz_full_kick();

+out:
local_irq_restore(flags);
}

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