On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:40:41PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > current_cpu_type() is not preemption-safe. > If CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled then mipsxx_reg_setup() can be called from preemptible state. > Added get_cpu()/put_cpu() pair to make it preemption-safe. > > This was found while testing oprofile with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT enable. [...] Interesting. I wonder how many more of this kind of bug we got lurking around. In case of oprofile, we silently assume that all processors have the same number of counters, the same style and number of counters. So it'd be ok to just look at the boot CPU which is even simpler than your fix. What do you think about below fix? Thanks, Ralf arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h | 2 ++ arch/mips/oprofile/op_model_mipsxx.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h index 1dc0860..fa44f3e 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ #define current_cpu_type() current_cpu_data.cputype #endif +#define boot_cpu_type() cpu_data[0].cputype + /* * SMP assumption: Options of CPU 0 are a superset of all processors. * This is true for all known MIPS systems. diff --git a/arch/mips/oprofile/op_model_mipsxx.c b/arch/mips/oprofile/op_model_mipsxx.c index e4b1140..3a2b6e9 100644 --- a/arch/mips/oprofile/op_model_mipsxx.c +++ b/arch/mips/oprofile/op_model_mipsxx.c @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void mipsxx_reg_setup(struct op_counter_config *ctr) reg.control[i] |= M_PERFCTL_USER; if (ctr[i].exl) reg.control[i] |= M_PERFCTL_EXL; - if (current_cpu_type() == CPU_XLR) + if (boot_cpu_type() == CPU_XLR) reg.control[i] |= M_PERFCTL_COUNT_ALL_THREADS; reg.counter[i] = 0x80000000 - ctr[i].count; }