Typo in down_spin() meant it only read the low 32 bits of the
"serve" value, instead of the full 64 bits. This results in the
system hanging when the values in ticket/serve get larger than
32-bits. A big enough system running the right test can hit this
in just a couple of days.
Reported via IRC by Bjorn Helgaas
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c b/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c
index 5dfd916..7b3cdc6 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static inline void down_spin(struct spinaphore *ss)
ia64_invala();
for (;;) {
- asm volatile ("ld4.c.nc %0=[%1]" : "=r"(serve) : "r"(&ss->serve) : "memory");
+ asm volatile ("ld8.c.nc %0=[%1]" : "=r"(serve) : "r"(&ss->serve) : "memory");
if (time_before(t, serve))
return;
cpu_relax();
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