This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages
to the 4.4-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:
powerpc-mm-fixup-preempt-underflow-with-huge-pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 08a5bb2921e490939f78f38fd0d02858bb709942 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:03:56 +0100
Subject: powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages
From: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 08a5bb2921e490939f78f38fd0d02858bb709942 upstream.
hugepd_free() used __get_cpu_var() once. Nothing ensured that the code
accessing the variable did not migrate from one CPU to another and soon
this was noticed by Tiejun Chen in 94b09d755462 ("powerpc/hugetlb:
Replace __get_cpu_var with get_cpu_var"). So we had it fixed.
Christoph Lameter was doing his __get_cpu_var() replaces and forgot
PowerPC. Then he noticed this and sent his fixed up batch again which
got applied as 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses").
The careful reader will noticed one little detail: get_cpu_var() got
replaced with this_cpu_ptr(). So now we have a put_cpu_var() which does
a preempt_enable() and nothing that does preempt_disable() so we
underflow the preempt counter.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -486,13 +486,13 @@ static void hugepd_free(struct mmu_gathe
{
struct hugepd_freelist **batchp;
- batchp = this_cpu_ptr(&hugepd_freelist_cur);
+ batchp = &get_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
if (atomic_read(&tlb->mm->mm_users) < 2 ||
cpumask_equal(mm_cpumask(tlb->mm),
cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()))) {
kmem_cache_free(hugepte_cache, hugepte);
- put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
+ put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
return;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/powerpc-mm-fixup-preempt-underflow-with-huge-pages.patch
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