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nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()

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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@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367119558.6391.34.camel@ThinkPad-T5421.cn.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Li Zhong 2013-04-28 11:25:58 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a1412ec539
commit 6296ace467
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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@ -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);
}