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Eric Dumazet committed 889a7a6a5d5
percpu, x86: Fix percpu_xchg_op() These recent percpu commits: 2485b6464cf8: x86,percpu: Move out of place 64 bit ops into X86_64 section 8270137a0d50: cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics Caused this 'perf top' crash: Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G D 2.6.38-rc2-00181-gef71723 #413 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810465b5>] ? panic ? kmsg_dump ? kmsg_dump ? oops_end ? no_context ? __bad_area_nosemaphore ? perf_output_begin ? bad_area_nosemaphore ? do_page_fault ? __task_pid_nr_ns ? perf_event_tid ? __perf_event_header__init_id ? validate_chain ? perf_output_sample ? trace_hardirqs_off ? page_fault ? irq_work_run ? update_process_times ? tick_sched_timer ? tick_sched_timer ? __run_hrtimer ? hrtimer_interrupt ? account_system_vtime ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt ? apic_timer_interrupt ... Looking at assembly code, I found: list = this_cpu_xchg(irq_work_list, NULL); gives this wrong code : (gcc-4.1.2 cross compiler) ffffffff810bc45e: mov %gs:0xead0,%rax cmpxchg %rax,%gs:0xead0 jne ffffffff810bc45e <irq_work_run+0x3e> test %rax,%rax je ffffffff810bc4aa <irq_work_run+0x8a> Tell gcc we dirty eax/rax register in percpu_xchg_op() Compiler must use another register to store pxo_new__ We also dont need to reload percpu value after a jump, since a 'failed' cmpxchg already updated eax/rax Wrong generated code was : xor %rax,%rax /* load 0 into %rax */ 1: mov %gs:0xead0,%rax cmpxchg %rax,%gs:0xead0 jne 1b test %rax,%rax After patch : xor %rdx,%rdx /* load 0 into %rdx */ mov %gs:0xead0,%rax 1: cmpxchg %rdx,%gs:0xead0 jne 1b: test %rax,%rax Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1295973114.3588.312.camel@edumazet-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>