Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sorry, I can't follow your argumentation here.
> >
> > pcpu_alloc()
> >    ....
> > area_found:
> >    ....
> >
> >         /* clear the areas and return address relative to base address */
> >         for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> >                 memset((void *)pcpu_chunk_addr(chunk, cpu, 0) + off, 0, size);
> >
> > How would that memset fail to establish the mapping, which is
> > btw. already established via:
> >
> >      pcpu_populate_chunk()
> >
> > already before that memset?
> 
> I think that this will map them into init_mm->pgd and
> current->active_mm->pgd, but it won't necessarily map them into the
> rest of the pgds.

And why would mapping them into the kernel mapping, i.e. init_mm not
be sufficient?

We are talking about kernel memory and not some random user space
mapping.

Thanks,

	tglx
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