On 2016-03-10 01:04:24 [+0530], Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [off-list ref] writes:

*ping*
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/593943/

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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.

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Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
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Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
v1=E2=80=A6v2: - use get_cpu_var() instead of get_cpu_ptr()
       - correct indentation of put_cpu_var()

 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpag=

e.c

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index 744e24bcb85c..4a811ca7ac9d 100644

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

@@ -414,13 +414,13 @@ static void hugepd_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb, v=

oid *hugepte)

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 {
 	struct hugepd_freelist **batchp;
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-	batchp =3D this_cpu_ptr(&hugepd_freelist_cur);
+	batchp =3D &get_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
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 	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;
 	}
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Sebastian