Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/tlb_32.c:130!

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> I was using mmotm 2009-01-16-16-18, and I ran into this BUG,
> the line is:
> 	BUG_ON(cpumask_empty(cpumask));
> 
> I suspect it is caused by:
> 
> commit 4595f9620cda8a1e973588e743cf5f8436dd20c6
> Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Date:   Sat Jan 10 21:58:09 2009 -0800
> 
>     x86: change flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask
> 
>     Impact: reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API.

Jaswinder reported a similar crash.

Mike, Rusty, what's going on with this commit? Why does this code:

+       if (cpumask_any_but(&mm->cpu_vm_mask, smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids)
+               flush_tlb_others(&mm->cpu_vm_mask, mm, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);

Assume that mm->cpu_vm_mask wont change? TLB flushes go async and the MM's 
schedulability is not locked during that. I.e. mm->cpu_vm_mask can change 
under you while the TLB flush IPIs are flying around - while when the 
cpumask was passed on-stack this wouldnt happen.

	Ingo