The resume() implementation octeon_switch.S examines the saved cp0_status
register. We were clobbering the entire pt_regs structure in kernel
threads leading to random crashes.
When switching away from a kernel thread, the saved cp0_status is examined
and if bit 30 is set it is cleared and the CP2 state saved into the pt_regs
structure. Since the kernel thread stack overlaid the pt_regs structure
this resulted in a corrupt stack. When the kthread with the corrupt stack
was resumed, it could crash if it used any of the data in the stack that was
clobbered.
We fix it by moving the kernel thread stack down so it doesn't overlay
pt_regs.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Each platform has to add support for CPU hotplugging itself by providing
suitable definitions for the cpu_disable and cpu_die of the smp_ops
methods and setting SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU. A platform should only set
SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU once all it's smp_ops definitions have the
necessary changes. This patch contains the changes to the dummy smp_ops
definition for uni-processor systems.
Parts of the code contributed by Cavium Inc.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch also includes the required removal of (unused) inclusion of
<asm/a.out.h> <linux/a.out.h>'s in the arch/ code for these
architectures.
[dwmw2: updated for 2.6.27-rc]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:
scheduler switch to idle task
enable interrupts
Window starts here
----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
irq_exit() stops the tick
----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
return from schedule()
cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
Window ends here
The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.
The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
cpu_idle()
{
preempt_disable();
while(1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
are in the idle loop
while (!need_resched())
halt();
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
}
}
In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ...
/me grabs a large brown paperbag.
Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>,
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Never terribly functional or popular, plagued by hard to fix bugs the time
to say goodbye has more than arrived.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Match the R4000 semantics for the initial state of interrupt/kernel
status register flags for the R3000 in kernel_thread().
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Convert old/obsolete NORET_TYPE and ATTRIB_NORET macros to use the
newer standard of "__noreturn" as defined in compiler-gcc.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This new routine doesn't lookup for symbol names. So we needn't
to pass any char buffers or pointer since we don't care about
names.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Make sure cpu_has_fpu (which uses smp_processor_id()) is used only in
atomic context.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
If the PC was ret_from_irq or ret_from_exception, there will be no
more normal stackframe. Instead of stopping the unwinding, use PC and
RA saved by an exception handler to continue unwinding into the
interrupted context. This also simplifies the CONFIG_STACKTRACE code.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Implement stacktrace interface by using unwind_stack() and enable lockdep
support in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
