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author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-09-21 07:57:19 +0200 |
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committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-09-21 08:12:25 +0200 |
commit | 46b30ea9bc3698bc1d1e6fd726c9601d46fa0a91 (patch) | |
tree | 6c023260df9c957d8f452aa0c1ff42473fa1b1b5 /arch/x86/tools | |
parent | b30a3f6257ed2105259b404d419b4964e363928c (diff) | |
download | linux-46b30ea9bc3698bc1d1e6fd726c9601d46fa0a91.tar.bz2 |
percpu: fix pcpu_last_unit_cpu
pcpu_first/last_unit_cpu are used to track which cpu has the first and
last units assigned. This in turn is used to determine the span of a
chunk for man/unmap cache flushes and whether an address belongs to
the first chunk or not in per_cpu_ptr_to_phys().
When the number of possible CPUs isn't power of two, a chunk may
contain unassigned units towards the end of a chunk. The logic to
determine pcpu_last_unit_cpu was incorrect when there was an unused
unit at the end of a chunk. It failed to ignore the unused unit and
assigned the unused marker NR_CPUS to pcpu_last_unit_cpu.
This was discovered through kdump failure which was caused by
malfunctioning per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() on a kvm setup with 50 possible
CPUs by CAI Qian.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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