Re: [GIT PULL] percpu changes for v4.21-rc1

[Dennis Zhou]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 11:04:32AM -0600, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Michael Cree noted generic UP Alpha has been broken since v3.18. This is
> a small fix for locking in UP percpu code that fixes the issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dennis
> 
> The following changes since commit 7566ec393f4161572ba6f11ad5171fd5d59b0fbd:
> 
>   Linux 4.20-rc7 (2018-12-16 15:46:55 -0800)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu.git for-4.21
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 6ab7d47bcbf0144a8cb81536c2cead4cde18acfe:
> 
>   percpu: convert spin_lock_irq to spin_lock_irqsave. (2018-12-18 09:04:08 -0800)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dennis Zhou (1):
>       percpu: convert spin_lock_irq to spin_lock_irqsave.
> 
>  mm/percpu-km.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/percpu-km.c b/mm/percpu-km.c
> index 38de70ab1a0d..0f643dc2dc65 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu-km.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu-km.c
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static struct pcpu_chunk *pcpu_create_chunk(gfp_t gfp)
>  	const int nr_pages = pcpu_group_sizes[0] >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	struct pcpu_chunk *chunk;
>  	struct page *pages;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	chunk = pcpu_alloc_chunk(gfp);
> @@ -68,9 +69,9 @@ static struct pcpu_chunk *pcpu_create_chunk(gfp_t gfp)
>  	chunk->data = pages;
>  	chunk->base_addr = page_address(pages) - pcpu_group_offsets[0];
>  
> -	spin_lock_irq(&pcpu_lock);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
>  	pcpu_chunk_populated(chunk, 0, nr_pages, false);
> -	spin_unlock_irq(&pcpu_lock);
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);
>  
>  	pcpu_stats_chunk_alloc();
>  	trace_percpu_create_chunk(chunk->base_addr);
> 

Sigh, I missed +linux-kernel..

Thanks,
Dennis