[PATCH] tile: ns2cycles must be called with preempt disabled.

From: Henrik Austad
Date: Fri Mar 22 2013 - 13:50:12 EST


ns2cycles use per_cpu variables, and will, eventually, find its way into
smp_processord_id(). The latter must be called with either preempt
disabled, irq's off, from a thread locked to a single core or early in
the bootprocess (according to debug_smp_processor_id())

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: systemd-modules/367
caller is ns2cycles+0x40/0xb8

Starting stack dump of tid 367, pid 367 (systemd-modules) on cpu 2 at cycle 20969956421
frame 0: 0xfffffff70004b860 dump_stack+0x0/0x20 (sp 0xfffffe407993fa90)
frame 1: 0xfffffff7006abc28 debug_smp_processor_id+0x1a8/0x1e0 (sp 0xfffffe407993fa90)
frame 2: 0xfffffff7004d7b40 ns2cycles+0x40/0xb8 (sp 0xfffffe407993fab8)
frame 3: 0xfffffff7004dc578 __ndelay+0x38/0x80 (sp 0xfffffe407993fae0)

Note: wrapping the -entire- delay-loop in a preempt-off section can be a
bad idea as long delays would case kernel lockups without being able to
preempt the thread at all.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <haustad@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/tile/lib/delay.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/lib/delay.c b/arch/tile/lib/delay.c
index cdacdd1..a53cdcd 100644
--- a/arch/tile/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/tile/lib/delay.c
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__udelay);
void __ndelay(unsigned long nsecs)
{
cycles_t target = get_cycles();
+ preempt_disable();
target += ns2cycles(nsecs);
+ preempt_enable();
while (get_cycles() < target)
cpu_relax();
}
--
1.7.2.5

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