linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: Fix bug using smp_processor_id() in preemptible ubi

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Message-Id: <1276533618.17818.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:10:18 +0530
From:	Philby John <pjohn@...sta.com>
To:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Fix bug using smp_processor_id() in preemptible
 ubi_bgt1d kthread

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 16:04 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Philby John wrote:
> > mtd: Fix bug using smp_processor_id() in preemptible ubi_bgt1d kthread
> > 
> > On a MIPS Cavium Octeon CN5020 when trying to create a UBI volume,
> > on the NOR flash, the kernel thread ubi_bgt1d calls
> > cfi_amdstd_write_buffers() --> do_write_buffer() -->
> > INVALIDATE_CACHE_UDELAY --> __udelay(). Its __udelay() that calls
> > smp_processor_id() in preemptible code, which you are not supposed to.
> > Fix the problem by disabling preemption.
> 
> The MTD code just calls udelay().
> Are you sure it isn't permitted to call udelay() from preemptible code?
> I think it is fine.

It isn't really udelay() but smp_processor_id() that you are not to call
from a preemptible thread. Now I also see Ed Swierk has done a similar
thing https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4049/ and he comments "..which
calls smp_processor_id(), which is not supposed to be called from a
preemptible thread."


So perhaps I can use preempt_disable() around just this call in function
__udelay()?

Regards,
Philby

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