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* [patch] x86: fix broken flush_tlb_others_ipi()
@ 2009-01-14  2:43 Suresh Siddha
  2009-01-14  7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
  2009-01-14  7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Suresh Siddha @ 2009-01-14  2:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo, hpa, tglx; +Cc: travis, rusty, linux-kernel

This commit broke flush_tlb_others_ipi() causing boot hangs on a
16 logical cpu system.

>	commit 4595f9620cda8a1e973588e743cf5f8436dd20c6
>	Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>	Date:   Sat Jan 10 21:58:09 2009 -0800
>
>	    x86: change flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask

This change resulted in sending the invalidate tlb vector to the
sender itself causing the hang. flush_tlb_others_ipi() should exclude
the sender itself from the destination list.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
index 2d971a3..53289e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_others_ipi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 	 * We have to send the IPI only to
 	 * CPUs affected.
 	 */
-	send_IPI_mask(cpumask, INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START + sender);
+	send_IPI_mask(f->flush_cpumask, INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START + sender);
 
 	while (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask)))
 		cpu_relax();

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* Re: [patch] x86: fix broken flush_tlb_others_ipi()
  2009-01-14  2:43 [patch] x86: fix broken flush_tlb_others_ipi() Suresh Siddha
@ 2009-01-14  7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
  2009-01-14  7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2009-01-14  7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Suresh Siddha, Andrew Morton; +Cc: hpa, tglx, travis, rusty, linux-kernel


* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> This commit broke flush_tlb_others_ipi() causing boot hangs on a
> 16 logical cpu system.
> 
> >	commit 4595f9620cda8a1e973588e743cf5f8436dd20c6
> >	Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> >	Date:   Sat Jan 10 21:58:09 2009 -0800
> >
> >	    x86: change flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask
> 
> This change resulted in sending the invalidate tlb vector to the
> sender itself causing the hang. flush_tlb_others_ipi() should exclude
> the sender itself from the destination list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
> index 2d971a3..53289e1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_others_ipi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
>  	 * We have to send the IPI only to
>  	 * CPUs affected.
>  	 */
> -	send_IPI_mask(cpumask, INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START + sender);
> +	send_IPI_mask(f->flush_cpumask, INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START + sender);
>  
>  	while (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask)))
>  		cpu_relax();

Good catch! This might explain one of the hangs i was seeing on a 
test-system.

	Ingo

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* Re: [patch] x86: fix broken flush_tlb_others_ipi()
  2009-01-14  2:43 [patch] x86: fix broken flush_tlb_others_ipi() Suresh Siddha
  2009-01-14  7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
@ 2009-01-14  7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2009-01-14  7:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Suresh Siddha; +Cc: hpa, tglx, travis, rusty, linux-kernel


* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> This commit broke flush_tlb_others_ipi() causing boot hangs on a
> 16 logical cpu system.
> 
> >	commit 4595f9620cda8a1e973588e743cf5f8436dd20c6
> >	Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> >	Date:   Sat Jan 10 21:58:09 2009 -0800
> >
> >	    x86: change flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask
> 
> This change resulted in sending the invalidate tlb vector to the
> sender itself causing the hang. flush_tlb_others_ipi() should exclude
> the sender itself from the destination list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

applied to tip/cpus4096, thanks Suresh!

	Ingo

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