Re: [PATCH] s390: preempt: Fix preempt_count initialization

[Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 05:33:38PM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> > S390's init_idle_preempt_count(p, cpu) doesn't actually let us initialize the
> > preempt_count of the requested CPU's idle task: it unconditionally writes
> > to the current CPU's. This clearly conflicts with idle_threads_init(),
> > which intends to initialize *all* the idle tasks, including their
> > preempt_count (or their CPU's, if the arch uses a per-CPU preempt_count).
> > 
> > Unfortunately, it seems the way s390 does things doesn't let us initialize
> > every possible CPU's preempt_count early on, as the pages where this
> > resides are only allocated when a CPU is brought up and are freed when it
> > is brought down.
> > 
> > Let the arch-specific code set a CPU's preempt_count when its lowcore is
> > allocated, and turn init_idle_preempt_count() into an empty stub.
> > 
> > Fixes: f1a0a376ca0c ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled")
> > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/s390/include/asm/preempt.h | 16 ++++------------
> >  arch/s390/kernel/setup.c        |  1 +
> >  arch/s390/kernel/smp.c          |  1 +
> >  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> Vasily, can you pick this one up, please?

Will pick it up right away for rc1, thanks!