From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 74b51ee152b6d99e61ba329799a039453fb9438f upstream. ACPI maintains cache of ioremap regions to speed up operations and access to them from irq context where ioremap() calls aren't allowed. This code abuses synchronize_rcu() on unmap path for synchronization with fast-path in acpi_os_read/write_memory which uses this cache. Since v3.10 CPUs are allowed to enter idle state even if they have RCU callbacks queued, see commit c0f4dfd4f90f1667d234d21f15153ea09a2eaa66 ("rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks"). That change caused problems with nvidia proprietary driver which calls acpi_os_map/unmap_generic_address several times during initialization. Each unmap calls synchronize_rcu and adds significant delay. Totally initialization is slowed for a couple of seconds and that is enough to trigger timeout in hardware, gpu decides to "fell off the bus". Widely spread workaround is reducing "rcu_idle_gp_delay" from 4 to 1 jiffy. This patch replaces synchronize_rcu() with synchronize_rcu_expedited() which is much faster. Link: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/567297/linux/linux-3-10-driver-crash/ Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/osl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c index e5f416c7f66e..d73f85247272 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static void acpi_os_drop_map_ref(struct acpi_ioremap *map) static void acpi_os_map_cleanup(struct acpi_ioremap *map) { if (!map->refcount) { - synchronize_rcu(); + synchronize_rcu_expedited(); acpi_unmap(map->phys, map->virt); kfree(map); } -- 2.2.1 -- 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