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Fix cpu hotplug problem in softirq code
authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Thu, 1 May 2008 11:34:23 +0000 (04:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 May 2008 15:03:58 +0000 (08:03 -0700)
commite5e417232e7c9ecc58a77902d2e8dd46792cd092
treed42798a6dafa81ff63784b2017ce647bd41a4f57
parent6bffd7b57d747d74ec2962d7c822f4b86e9f64d4
Fix cpu hotplug problem in softirq code

currently cpu hotplug (unplug) seems broken on s390 and likely others. On cpu
unplug the system starts to behave very strange and hangs.

I bisected the problem to the following commit:

commit 48f20a9a9488c432fc86df1ff4b7f4fa895d1183
Author: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Date: Tue Mar 4 15:23:25 2008 -0800
tasklets: execute tasklets in the same order they were queued

Reverting this patch seems to fix the problem.  I looked into takeover_tasklet
and it seems that there is a way to corrupt the tail pointer of the current
cpu.  If the tasklet list of the frozen cpu is empty, the tail pointer of the
current cpu points to the address of the head pointer of the stopped cpu and
not to the next pointer of a tasklet_struct.

This patch avoids the list splice of the list is empty and cpu hotplug seems
to work as the tail pointer is not corrupted.  Olof, can you look into that
patch and ACK/NACK it so Andrew can push this to Linus, if appropriate?
Please note that some lines are longer than 80 chars, but line-wrapping looked
worse that this version.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/softirq.c