These recent percpu commits:
2485b6464c: x86,percpu: Move out of place 64 bit ops into X86_64 section
8270137a0d: 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>
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