From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zhang Yang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] x86, hotplug: fix llc shared map unreleased during cpu hotplug
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:20:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140904052034.GA29146@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406625883-4972-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
* Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
> IP: [..] find_busiest_group
> PGD 5a9d5067 PUD 13067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0000 [#3] SMP
> [...]
> Call Trace:
> load_balance
> ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
> idle_balance
> __schedule
> schedule
> schedule_timeout
> ? lock_timer_base
> schedule_timeout_uninterruptible
> msleep
> lock_device_hotplug_sysfs
> online_store
> dev_attr_store
> sysfs_write_file
> vfs_write
> SyS_write
> system_call_fastpath
>
> Last level cache shared map is built during cpu up and build sched domain
> routine takes advantage of it to setup sched domain cpu topology, however,
> llc shared map is unreleased during cpu disable which lead to invalid sched
> domain cpu topology. This patch fix it by release llc shared map correctly
> during cpu disable.
Very little is said in this changelog about how the bug was
found, how likely it is to occur for others, what systems are
affected, etc.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 9:24 [PATCH v4] x86, hotplug: fix llc shared map unreleased during cpu hotplug Wanpeng Li
2014-07-29 17:18 ` Toshi Kani
2014-08-07 6:33 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <20140808224057.GA9288@oranje.fc.hp.com>
2014-08-15 3:00 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-08-15 6:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-08-25 5:32 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-04 1:46 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-04 5:20 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2014-09-04 5:40 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-09-04 6:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 9:02 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-04 8:56 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-04 9:34 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-15 1:32 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-16 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-16 10:00 ` Wanpeng Li
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