powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages
authorSebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:03:56 +0000 (10:03 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 06:41:53 +0000 (15:41 +0900)
commit 08a5bb2921e490939f78f38fd0d02858bb709942 upstream.

hugepd_free() used __get_cpu_var() once. Nothing ensured that the code
accessing the variable did not migrate from one CPU to another and soon
this was noticed by Tiejun Chen in 94b09d755462 ("powerpc/hugetlb:
Replace __get_cpu_var with get_cpu_var"). So we had it fixed.

Christoph Lameter was doing his __get_cpu_var() replaces and forgot
PowerPC. Then he noticed this and sent his fixed up batch again which
got applied as 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses").

The careful reader will noticed one little detail: get_cpu_var() got
replaced with this_cpu_ptr(). So now we have a put_cpu_var() which does
a preempt_enable() and nothing that does preempt_disable() so we
underflow the preempt counter.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

index 9833fee493ec414be50c241153889d7ac4259402..807f1594701df4eb5892dbd8ce9d77305e377ac4 100644 (file)
@@ -486,13 +486,13 @@ static void hugepd_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *hugepte)
 {
        struct hugepd_freelist **batchp;
 
-       batchp = this_cpu_ptr(&hugepd_freelist_cur);
+       batchp = &get_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
 
        if (atomic_read(&tlb->mm->mm_users) < 2 ||
            cpumask_equal(mm_cpumask(tlb->mm),
                          cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()))) {
                kmem_cache_free(hugepte_cache, hugepte);
-        put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
+               put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
                return;
        }