Patch "sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off()

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:
     sched-core-idle_task_exit-shouldn-t-use-switch_mm_irqs_off.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 11:49:15 -0700
Subject: sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off()

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae upstream.

idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore
should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off().

This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will
confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes.  Nonetheless, I think it
should be backported because it's trivial.  There won't be any
meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only
used when offlining a CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/core.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5469,7 +5469,7 @@ void idle_task_exit(void)
 	BUG_ON(cpu_online(smp_processor_id()));
 
 	if (mm != &init_mm) {
-		switch_mm_irqs_off(mm, &init_mm, current);
+		switch_mm(mm, &init_mm, current);
 		finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
 	}
 	mmdrop(mm);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/sched-core-idle_task_exit-shouldn-t-use-switch_mm_irqs_off.patch