From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH] oprofile: add SMP barriers for hrtimer hotplug code
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:08:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296486501-25848-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> (raw)
OProfile uses a CPU notifier to start and stop any hrtimers when CPUs change
between ONLINE and DEAD. A static int ctr_running is used to keep track of
the counter state.
This can lead to problems where writes to the state variable are re-ordered
with repect to reads of the variable occurring on other CPUs, meaning that
__oprofile_hrtimer_start may read ctr_running as 0 and not initialise the
hrtimer. Potential deadlock can occur in __oprofile_hrtimer_stop because
lock_hrtimer_base will poll until timer->base != NULL, which will never
happen.
This patch adds smp_mb()s to ensure that ctr_running mirrors the correct
counter state.
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c b/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c
index 0107251..38c1e1b 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int oprofile_hrtimer_start(void)
{
get_online_cpus();
ctr_running = 1;
+ smp_mb();
on_each_cpu(__oprofile_hrtimer_start, NULL, 1);
put_online_cpus();
return 0;
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ static void oprofile_hrtimer_stop(void)
get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
__oprofile_hrtimer_stop(cpu);
+ smp_mb();
ctr_running = 0;
put_online_cpus();
}
--
1.7.0.4
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2011-01-31 15:08 Will Deacon [this message]
2011-01-31 15:41 ` [PATCH] oprofile: add SMP barriers for hrtimer hotplug code Santosh Shilimkar
2011-01-31 17:24 ` Will Deacon
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