linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Suresh Siddha 68f202e4e8 x86, mtrr: Use stop machine context to rendezvous all the cpu's
Use the stop machine context rather than IPI's to rendezvous all the cpus for
MTRR initialization that happens during cpu bringup or for MTRR modifications
during runtime.

This avoids deadlock scenario (reported by Prarit) like:

cpu A holds a read_lock (tasklist_lock for example) with irqs enabled
cpu B waits for the same lock with irqs disabled using write_lock_irq
cpu C doing set_mtrr() (during AP bringup for example), which will try to
rendezvous all the cpus using IPI's

This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting
for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the lock and thus not
reaching the rendezvous point.

Using stop cpu (run in the process context of per cpu based keventd) to do
this rendezvous, avoids this deadlock scenario.

Also make sure all the cpu's are in the rendezvous handler before we proceed
with the local_irq_save() on each cpu. This lock step disabling irqs on all
the cpus will avoid other deadlock scenarios (for example involving
with the blocking smp_call_function's etc).

   [ This problem is very old. Marking -stable only for 2.6.35 as the
     stop_one_cpu_nowait() API is present only in 2.6.35. Any older
     kernel interested in this fix need to do some more work in backporting
     this patch. ]

Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280515602.2682.10.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org	[2.6.35]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-30 15:59:49 -07:00
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alpha alpha: Detect Super IO chip, no IDE on Avanti, enable EPP19 2010-06-15 14:19:08 -04:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2010-07-26 08:20:38 -07:00
avr32 avr32: use asm-generic/scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:54 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: use use asm-generic/scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:55 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.jni.nu/cris 2010-06-01 08:51:25 -07:00
frv FRV: Reinstate null behaviour for the GDB remote protocol 'p' command 2010-06-09 12:42:44 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] Fix spinaphore down_spin() 2010-06-30 10:46:16 -07:00
m32r m32r: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2010-05-27 10:19:19 -07:00
m68knommu Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
microblaze lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
mips MIPS: Return after handling coprocessor 2 exception 2010-07-05 17:17:33 +01:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-06-11 14:15:44 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
powerpc Merge commit 'kumar/merge' into merge 2010-07-23 13:46:21 +10:00
s390 [S390] Update default configuration. 2010-06-08 18:58:23 +02:00
score asm-generic: remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD in scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:54 -07:00
sh lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2010-07-21 09:28:50 -07:00
um um: os-linux/mem.c needs sys/stat.h 2010-06-29 15:29:32 -07:00
x86 x86, mtrr: Use stop machine context to rendezvous all the cpu's 2010-07-30 15:59:49 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpoints 2010-05-01 04:32:11 +02:00