smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race
authorWang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:53:57 +0000 (15:53 +0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 6 Feb 2013 04:33:49 +0000 (04:33 +0000)
commit24283593e3a8623e692ba2791a35180b1229a6c5
treee650adb6379718adce61414fd7b7510f2f592c0b
parentf18cd12608855fa17d94bfd30fbdaf5abf56f053
smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race

commit f44310b98ddb7f0d06550d73ed67df5865e3eda5 upstream.

I get the following warning every day with v3.7, once or
twice a day:

  [ 2235.186027] WARNING: at /mnt/sda7/kernel/linux/arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:109 default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x2f/0xb8()

As explained by Linus as well:

 |
 | Once we've done the "list_add_rcu()" to add it to the
 | queue, we can have (another) IPI to the target CPU that can
 | now see it and clear the mask.
 |
 | So by the time we get to actually send the IPI, the mask might
 | have been cleared by another IPI.
 |

This patch also fixes a system hang problem, if the data->cpumask
gets cleared after passing this point:

        if (WARN_ONCE(!mask, "empty IPI mask"))
                return;

then the problem in commit 83d349f35e1a ("x86: don't send an IPI to
the empty set of CPU's") will happen again.

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mina86@mina86.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130126075357.GA3205@udknight
[ Tidied up the changelog and the comment in the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/smp.c