This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen/time: Fix kasprintf splat when allocating timer%d IRQ line.
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xen-time-fix-kasprintf-splat-when-allocating-timer-d-irq-line.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7918c92ae9638eb8a6ec18e2b4a0de84557cccc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:18:00 -0400
Subject: xen/time: Fix kasprintf splat when allocating timer%d IRQ line.
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7918c92ae9638eb8a6ec18e2b4a0de84557cccc8 upstream.
When we online the CPU, we get this splat:
smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x2
installing Xen timer for CPU 1
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/konrad/ssd/konrad/linux/mm/slab.c:3179
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc6upstream-00001-g3884fad #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810c1fea>] __might_sleep+0xda/0x100
[<ffffffff81194617>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1e7/0x2c0
[<ffffffff81303758>] ? kasprintf+0x38/0x40
[<ffffffff813036eb>] kvasprintf+0x5b/0x90
[<ffffffff81303758>] kasprintf+0x38/0x40
[<ffffffff81044510>] xen_setup_timer+0x30/0xb0
[<ffffffff810445af>] xen_hvm_setup_cpu_clockevents+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffff81666d0a>] start_secondary+0x19c/0x1a8
The solution to that is use kasprintf in the CPU hotplug path
that 'online's the CPU. That is, do it in in xen_hvm_cpu_notify,
and remove the call to in xen_hvm_setup_cpu_clockevents.
Unfortunatly the later is not a good idea as the bootup path
does not use xen_hvm_cpu_notify so we would end up never allocating
timer%d interrupt lines when booting. As such add the check for
atomic() to continue.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 5 ++++-
arch/x86/xen/time.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1589,8 +1589,11 @@ static int __cpuinit xen_hvm_cpu_notify(
switch (action) {
case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
xen_vcpu_setup(cpu);
- if (xen_have_vector_callback)
+ if (xen_have_vector_callback) {
xen_init_lock_cpu(cpu);
+ if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_hvm_safe_pvclock))
+ xen_setup_timer(cpu);
+ }
break;
default:
break;
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -497,7 +497,11 @@ static void xen_hvm_setup_cpu_clockevent
{
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
xen_setup_runstate_info(cpu);
- xen_setup_timer(cpu);
+ /*
+ * xen_setup_timer(cpu) - snprintf is bad in atomic context. Hence
+ * doing it xen_hvm_cpu_notify (which gets called by smp_init during
+ * early bootup and also during CPU hotplug events).
+ */
xen_setup_cpu_clockevents();
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/xen-smp-spinlock-fix-leakage-of-the-spinlock-interrupt-line-for-every-cpu-online-offline.patch
queue-3.8/xen-smp-fix-leakage-of-timer-interrupt-line-for-every-cpu-online-offline.patch
queue-3.8/xen-time-fix-kasprintf-splat-when-allocating-timer-d-irq-line.patch
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