smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of mask
commitff4e140f90d39616973a61512a7e245fea967334
authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:27:17 +0000 (15 13:27 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:31:17 +0000 (28 07:31 -0700)
tree831f485b1320c180e8bd24719f6f440391b656af
parentad9c990a2c6aa197b1e5c68ea2870062e68e0b08
smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of mask

commit 723aae25d5cdb09962901d36d526b44d4be1051c upstream.

Mike Galbraith reported finding a lockup ("perma-spin bug") where the
cpumask passed to smp_call_function_many was cleared by other cpu(s)
while a cpu was preparing its call_data block, resulting in no cpu to
clear the last ref and unlock the block.

Having cpus clear their bit asynchronously could be useful on a mask of
cpus that might have a translation context, or cpus that need a push to
complete an rcu window.

Instead of adding a BUG_ON and requiring yet another cpumask copy, just
detect the race and handle it.

Note: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask must still handle an empty
cpumask because the data block is globally visible before the that arch
callback is made.  And (obviously) there are no guarantees to which cpus
are notified if the mask is changed during the call; only cpus that were
online and had their mask bit set during the whole call are guaranteed
to be called.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/smp.c