This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events to the 3.10-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-events-initialize-local-per-cpu-mask-for-all-possible-events.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 84ca7a8e45dafb49cd5ca90a343ba033e2885c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:21:06 +0100 Subject: xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 84ca7a8e45dafb49cd5ca90a343ba033e2885c17 upstream. The sizeof() argument in init_evtchn_cpu_bindings() is incorrect resulting in only the first 64 (or 32 in 32-bit guests) ports having their bindings being initialized to VCPU 0. In most cases this does not cause a problem as request_irq() will set the irq affinity which will set the correct local per-cpu mask. However, if the request_irq() is called on a VCPU other than 0, there is a window between the unmasking of the event and the affinity being set were an event may be lost because it is not locally unmasked on any VCPU. If request_irq() is called on VCPU 0 then local irqs are disabled during the window and the race does not occur. Fix this by initializing all NR_EVENT_CHANNEL bits in the local per-cpu masks. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/xen/events.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/xen/events.c +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static void init_evtchn_cpu_bindings(voi for_each_possible_cpu(i) memset(per_cpu(cpu_evtchn_mask, i), - (i == 0) ? ~0 : 0, sizeof(*per_cpu(cpu_evtchn_mask, i))); + (i == 0) ? ~0 : 0, NR_EVENT_CHANNELS/8); } static inline void clear_evtchn(int port) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/xen-events-mask-events-when-changing-their-vcpu-binding.patch queue-3.10/xen-events-initialize-local-per-cpu-mask-for-all-possible-events.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html