This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sparc64: Zero pages on allocation for mondo and error queues.
to the 4.9-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:
sparc64-zero-pages-on-allocation-for-mondo-and-error-queues.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Jul 3 11:00:33 CEST 2017
From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:54:11 -0400
Subject: sparc64: Zero pages on allocation for mondo and error queues.
From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 7a7dc961a28b965a0d0303c2e989df17b411708b ]
Error queues use a non-zero first word to detect if the queues are full.
Using pages that have not been zeroed may result in false positive
overflow events. These queues are set up once during boot so zeroing
all mondo and error queue pages is safe.
Note that the false positive overflow does not always occur because the
page allocation for these queues is so early in the boot cycle that
higher number CPUs get fresh pages. It is only when traps are serviced
with lower number CPUs who were given already used pages that this issue
is exposed.
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/irq_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/irq_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/irq_64.c
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static void __init alloc_one_queue(unsig
unsigned long order = get_order(size);
unsigned long p;
- p = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
+ p = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
if (!p) {
prom_printf("SUN4V: Error, cannot allocate queue.\n");
prom_halt();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/sparc64-handle-pio-mem-non-resumable-errors.patch
queue-4.9/sparc64-zero-pages-on-allocation-for-mondo-and-error-queues.patch