Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing

[Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>]

Well, my earlier find_first_bit() implementation was completely bogus.
My sanity has now returned and I coded this patch below that fixes 
find_find_bit() to return "size" if all bits are zero. I have tested it 
extensively in userspace and it boots 2.5.44-mm5 which crashed with the earlier
version of the bitops_fix patch. I have coded the assembly routine
as optimal as I could think of and without introducing any new
branches or memory loads.

Along with this patch, I applied the larger_cpu_mask patch to -mm5
and sanity tested both UP and SMP kernels for dcache leaks in a 4CPU P3 box.
An ls -lR and subsequent unmounting of that filesystems showed that
the dentries were correctly getting returned the dcache slab and
that indicates that the larger_cpu_mask patch no longer breaks RCU.
I will do some more testing with this combination later with
rcu_stats applied on this tree (just to be sure), but so far it looks good.

Thanks
-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.


bitops_fix.patch
-----------------

diff -urN linux-2.5.44-mm5/include/asm-i386/bitops.h linux-2.5.44-mm5-fix/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
--- linux-2.5.44-mm5/include/asm-i386/bitops.h	Sat Oct 19 09:32:01 2002
+++ linux-2.5.44-mm5-fix/include/asm-i386/bitops.h	Sat Oct 26 17:52:09 2002
@@ -311,12 +311,13 @@
 		"repe; scasl\n\t"
 		"jz 1f\n\t"
 		"leal -4(%%edi),%%edi\n\t"
-		"bsfl (%%edi),%%eax\n"
-		"1:\tsubl %%ebx,%%edi\n\t"
+		"bsfl (%%edi),%%edx\n"
+		"subl %%ebx,%%edi\n\t"
 		"shll $3,%%edi\n\t"
-		"addl %%edi,%%eax"
+		"addl %%edi,%%edx\n\t"
+		"1:\tmovl %%edx,%%eax\n\t"
 		:"=a" (res), "=&c" (d0), "=&D" (d1)
-		:"1" ((size + 31) >> 5), "2" (addr), "b" (addr));
+		:"1" ((size + 31) >> 5), "2" (addr), "b" (addr), "d" (size));
 	return res;
 }