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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	venki@gelk.kernelslacker.org
Subject: Re: Preemption Broken:  centrino_target busted under SMP on 2.6.20.4
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:50:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405205034.GB3605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46155CFF.70701@wolfmountaingroup.com>

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:33:03PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
 > 
 > BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: 
 > kondemand/0/2473
 > caller is centrino_target+0xfb/0x600
 > [<401e3646>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x9e/0xb0
 > [<40112afb>] centrino_target+0xfb/0x600
 > [<40112a00>] centrino_target+0x0/0x600
 > [<40305bd9>] __cpufreq_driver_target+0x5c/0x6b
 > [<f897a537>] do_dbs_timer+0x1bc/0x208 [cpufreq_ondemand]
 > [<40134a46>] run_workqueue+0x85/0x125
 > [<40374f7f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x18/0x66
 > [<f897a37b>] do_dbs_timer+0x0/0x208 [cpufreq_ondemand]
 > [<401353fb>] worker_thread+0xf9/0x124
 > [<401213b9>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
 > [<40135302>] worker_thread+0x0/0x124
 > [<40137b37>] kthread+0xb0/0xd9
 > [<40137a87>] kthread+0x0/0xd9
 > [<40104b2f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

Given speedstep-centrino is obsoleted in favour of acpi-cpufreq,
I'm reluctant to spend too much time turd-polishing.
This big-hammer diff should fix this..

	Dave

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
index f43b987..824d0a2 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
@@ -708,6 +708,7 @@ static int centrino_target (struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 	saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed;
 	first_cpu = 1;
 	cpus_clear(covered_cpus);
+	preempt_disable();
 	for_each_cpu_mask(j, online_policy_cpus) {
 		/*
 		 * Support for SMP systems.
@@ -798,6 +799,7 @@ static int centrino_target (struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 	}
 
 migrate_end:
+	preempt_enable();
 	set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask);
 	return 0;
 }

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05 20:33 Preemption Broken: centrino_target busted under SMP on 2.6.20.4 Jeff V. Merkey
2007-04-05 20:50 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-04-10  0:26   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-10  2:31     ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10  2:41       ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-10  3:05         ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10  3:08           ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10  3:51             ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-10  4:29               ` Dave Jones

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