This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: lustre: disable preempt while sampling processor id. to the 4.15-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: staging-lustre-disable-preempt-while-sampling-processor-id.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 Apr 9 10:16:32 CEST 2018 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:01:47 +1100 Subject: staging: lustre: disable preempt while sampling processor id. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dbeccabf5294e80f7cc9ee566746c42211bed736 ] Calling smp_processor_id() without disabling preemption triggers a warning (if CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT). I think the result of cfs_cpt_current() is only used as a hint for load balancing, rather than as a precise and stable indicator of the current CPU. So it doesn't need to be called with preemption disabled. So disable preemption inside cfs_cpt_current() to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-cpu.c @@ -529,19 +529,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_cpt_spread_node); int cfs_cpt_current(struct cfs_cpt_table *cptab, int remap) { - int cpu = smp_processor_id(); - int cpt = cptab->ctb_cpu2cpt[cpu]; + int cpu; + int cpt; - if (cpt < 0) { - if (!remap) - return cpt; + preempt_disable(); + cpu = smp_processor_id(); + cpt = cptab->ctb_cpu2cpt[cpu]; + if (cpt < 0 && remap) { /* don't return negative value for safety of upper layer, * instead we shadow the unknown cpu to a valid partition ID */ cpt = cpu % cptab->ctb_nparts; } - + preempt_enable(); return cpt; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_cpt_current); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/staging-lustre-disable-preempt-while-sampling-processor-id.patch queue-4.15/vfs-close-race-between-getcwd-and-d_move.patch