From: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
hpa@zytor.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] x86, cpu-hotplug: fix llc shared map unreleased during cpu hotplug
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:48:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542206DB.9080102@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140923093753.GA22644@pd.tnic>
于 14-9-23 下午5:37, Borislav Petkov 写道:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:17:52PM +0800, Wanpeng Li 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
>>
>> This bug can be triggered by hot add and remove large number of xen
>> domain0's vcpus repeatedly.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
>> Tested-by: Linn Crosetto <linn@hp.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
Thanks.
Ingo, Peter Z, HPA,
Could this patch catch up with 3.18 merge window?
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-17 7:17 [PATCH v5] x86, cpu-hotplug: fix llc shared map unreleased during cpu hotplug Wanpeng Li
2014-09-21 23:11 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-23 4:46 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-09-23 6:36 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-09-23 7:56 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-09-23 9:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-23 23:48 ` Wanpeng Li [this message]
2014-09-24 7:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-24 8:18 ` Wanpeng Li
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