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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG_ON(!cpus_equal(cpumask, tmp));
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:21:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329162123.4c57734d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006701c415a4$01df0770$d100000a@sbs2003.local>

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> The bug is on "BUG_ON(!cpus_equal(cpumask, tmp));" in flush_tlb_others
> This was from 2.6.1-rc1-mjb1, and seems to be a race on shutdown
> (prints after "Power Down"), but I've no reason to believe it's specific
> to the patchset I have - it's not an area I'm touching, I think.
> 
> I presume we've got a race between taking CPUs offline and the 
> tlbflush code ... tlb_flush_mm reads the value from mm->cpu_vm_mask,
> and then presumably some other cpu changes cpu_online_map before it
> gets to calling flush_tlb_others ... does that sound about right?

Looks like it, yes.  I don't think there's a sane way of fixing that - we'd
need the flush_tlb_others() caller to hold some lock which keeps the cpu
add/remove code away.

I'd propose removing the assertion?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-30  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29 15:39 BUG_ON(!cpus_equal(cpumask, tmp)); Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-30  0:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-30  0:25   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-30 13:28     ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-03-30 23:17       ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-31  0:22         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-31  0:39           ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-31  0:57             ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-31  1:11               ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-31  1:24                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-31  1:36                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-31  1:51                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-31  4:43                       ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-04-01  0:31                         ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-01  5:04                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-04-01 11:38                             ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-02 18:33                               ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-04-01  8:42                         ` Paul Jackson
2004-04-01 13:57                           ` Hariprasad Nellitheertha
2004-04-03  1:45                             ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-31  1:01           ` Andy Whitcroft
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-02 23:51 Martin J. Bligh

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