[PATCH 3.11 034/272] powerpc/pseries: Duplicate dtl entries sometimes sent to userspace

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Dec 6 12:55:23 UTC 2013


3.11.10.1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>

commit 84b073868b9d9e754ae48b828337633d1b386482 upstream.

When reading from the dispatch trace log (dtl) userspace interface, I
sometimes see duplicate entries. One example:

00000000  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

00000030  07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000040  00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000050  00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50  80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

The problem is in scan_dispatch_log() where we call dtl_consumer()
but bail out before incrementing the index.

To fix this I moved dtl_consumer() after the timebase comparison.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 65ab9e9..d1f90d3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -213,8 +213,6 @@ static u64 scan_dispatch_log(u64 stop_tb)
 	if (i == vpa->dtl_idx)
 		return 0;
 	while (i < vpa->dtl_idx) {
-		if (dtl_consumer)
-			dtl_consumer(dtl, i);
 		dtb = dtl->timebase;
 		tb_delta = dtl->enqueue_to_dispatch_time +
 			dtl->ready_to_enqueue_time;
@@ -227,6 +225,8 @@ static u64 scan_dispatch_log(u64 stop_tb)
 		}
 		if (dtb > stop_tb)
 			break;
+		if (dtl_consumer)
+			dtl_consumer(dtl, i);
 		stolen += tb_delta;
 		++i;
 		++dtl;
-- 
1.8.3.2





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