[PATCH 024/118] xen/time: Fix kasprintf splat when allocating timer%d IRQ line.

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue May 7 13:37:50 UTC 2013


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

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>

commit 7918c92ae9638eb8a6ec18e2b4a0de84557cccc8 upstream.

When we online the CPU, we get this splat:

smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x2
installing Xen timer for CPU 1
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/konrad/ssd/konrad/linux/mm/slab.c:3179
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc6upstream-00001-g3884fad #1
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810c1fea>] __might_sleep+0xda/0x100
 [<ffffffff81194617>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1e7/0x2c0
 [<ffffffff81303758>] ? kasprintf+0x38/0x40
 [<ffffffff813036eb>] kvasprintf+0x5b/0x90
 [<ffffffff81303758>] kasprintf+0x38/0x40
 [<ffffffff81044510>] xen_setup_timer+0x30/0xb0
 [<ffffffff810445af>] xen_hvm_setup_cpu_clockevents+0x1f/0x30
 [<ffffffff81666d0a>] start_secondary+0x19c/0x1a8

The solution to that is use kasprintf in the CPU hotplug path
that 'online's the CPU. That is, do it in in xen_hvm_cpu_notify,
and remove the call to in xen_hvm_setup_cpu_clockevents.

Unfortunatly the later is not a good idea as the bootup path
does not use xen_hvm_cpu_notify so we would end up never allocating
timer%d interrupt lines when booting. As such add the check for
atomic() to continue.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 5 ++++-
 arch/x86/xen/time.c      | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index 18b55fa..0b4f9c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1533,8 +1533,11 @@ static int __cpuinit xen_hvm_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
 	switch (action) {
 	case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
 		xen_vcpu_setup(cpu);
-		if (xen_have_vector_callback)
+		if (xen_have_vector_callback) {
 			xen_init_lock_cpu(cpu);
+			if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_hvm_safe_pvclock))
+				xen_setup_timer(cpu);
+		}
 		break;
 	default:
 		break;
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/time.c b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
index 0296a95..054cc01 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -497,7 +497,11 @@ static void xen_hvm_setup_cpu_clockevents(void)
 {
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	xen_setup_runstate_info(cpu);
-	xen_setup_timer(cpu);
+	/*
+	 * xen_setup_timer(cpu) - snprintf is bad in atomic context. Hence
+	 * doing it xen_hvm_cpu_notify (which gets called by smp_init during
+	 * early bootup and also during CPU hotplug events).
+	 */
 	xen_setup_cpu_clockevents();
 }
 
-- 
1.8.1.2





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