Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code (nr_iowait_cpu) v4

Arjan van de Ven
2010-06-17T06:43:03Z

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:29:50 +0300
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fix
>
> BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code:
> s2disk/3392 caller is nr_iowait_cpu+0xe/0x1e
> Pid: 3392, comm: s2disk Not tainted 2.6.35-rc3-dbg-00106-ga75e02b #2
> Call Trace:
> [<c1184c55>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xa5/0xbc
> [<c10282a5>] nr_iowait_cpu+0xe/0x1e
> [<c104ab7c>] update_ts_time_stats+0x32/0x6c
> [<c104ac73>] get_cpu_idle_time_us+0x36/0x58
> [<c124229b>] get_cpu_idle_time+0x12/0x74
> [<c1242963>] cpufreq_governor_dbs+0xc3/0x2dc
> [<c1240437>] __cpufreq_governor+0x51/0x85
> [<c1241190>] __cpufreq_set_policy+0x10c/0x13d
> [<c12413d3>] cpufreq_add_dev_interface+0x212/0x233
> [<c1241b1e>] ? handle_update+0x0/0xd
> [<c1241a18>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x34b/0x35a
> [<c103c973>] ? schedule_delayed_work_on+0x11/0x13
> [<c12c14db>] cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x59/0x63
> [<c1042f39>] notifier_call_chain+0x26/0x48
> [<c1042f7d>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
> [<c102efb9>] __cpu_notify+0x15/0x29
> [<c102efda>] cpu_notify+0xd/0xf
> [<c12bfb30>] _cpu_up+0xaf/0xd2
> [<c12b3ad4>] enable_nonboot_cpus+0x3d/0x94
> [<c1055eef>] hibernation_snapshot+0x104/0x1a2
> [<c1058b49>] snapshot_ioctl+0x24b/0x53e
> [<c1028ad1>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x7c/0x89
> [<c10ab91d>] vfs_ioctl+0x2e/0x8c
> [<c10588fe>] ? snapshot_ioctl+0x0/0x53e
> [<c10ac2c7>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x42f/0x45a
> [<c10a0ba5>] ? fsnotify_modify+0x4f/0x5a
> [<c11e9dc3>] ? tty_write+0x0/0x1d0
> [<c10a12d6>] ? vfs_write+0xa2/0xda
> [<c10ac333>] sys_ioctl+0x41/0x62
> [<c10027d3>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x2d
>
> The initial fix was to use get_cpu/put_cpu in nr_iowait_cpu. However,
> Arjan stated that "the bug is that it needs to be nr_iowait_cpu(int
> cpu)".
>
> This patch introduces nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu) and changes to its
> callers.
>
> Arjan also pointed out that we can't use get_cpu/put_cpu in
> update_ts_time_stats since we "pick the current cpu, rather than the
> one denoted by ts" in that case. To match given *ts and cpu denoted
> by *ts we use new field in the struct tick_sched: int cpu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

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