From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755949Ab0CIUfQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:35:16 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:37435 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755293Ab0CIUfN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:35:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:33:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Andrew Morton cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: mm: Do not iterate over NR_CPUS in __zone_pcp_update() In-Reply-To: <20100309122253.3f3d4a53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20100309122253.3f3d4a53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:21:04 +0100 (CET) > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > __zone_pcp_update() iterates over NR_CPUS instead of limiting the > > access to the possible cpus. This might result in access to > > uninitialized areas as the per cpu allocator only populates the per > > cpu memory for possible cpus. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner > > --- > > mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c > > =================================================================== > > --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c > > +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c > > @@ -3224,7 +3224,7 @@ static int __zone_pcp_update(void *data) > > int cpu; > > unsigned long batch = zone_batchsize(zone), flags; > > > > - for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) { > > + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { > > struct per_cpu_pageset *pset; > > struct per_cpu_pages *pcp; > > I'm having trouble working out whether we want to backport this into > 2.6.33.x or earlier. Help? given the above aesthetic mod, shouldn't that same change be applied to *all* explicit loops of that form? after all, checkpatch.pl warns against it: ===== # use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong # ignore definitions of NR_CPUS and usage to define arrays as likely right if ($line =~ /\bNR_CPUS\b/ && $line !~ /^.\s*\s*#\s*if\b.*\bNR_CPUS\b/ && $line !~ /^.\s*\s*#\s*define\b.*\bNR_CPUS\b/ && $line !~ /^.\s*$Declare\s.*\[[^\]]*NR_CPUS[^\]]*\]/ && $line !~ /\[[^\]]*\.\.\.[^\]]*NR_CPUS[^\]]*\]/ && $line !~ /\[[^\]]*NR_CPUS[^\]]*\.\.\.[^\]]*\]/) { WARN("usage of NR_CPUS is often wrong - consider using cpu_possible(), num_possible_cpus(), for_each_possible_cpu(), etc\n" . $herecurr); } ===== rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================