linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/20] powerpc: Use call_rcu

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:10:10 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] powerpc: Use call_rcu_sched() for pagetables

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 16:16 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> plain text document attachment (powerpc-pgtable-call_rcu_sched.patch)
> PowerPC relies on IRQ-disable to guard against RCU quiecent states,
> use the appropriate RCU call version.
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

So as per discussions with Paul Mck, that should be correct,
thus

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static void pte_free_rcu_callback(struct
>  
>  static void pte_free_submit(struct pte_freelist_batch *batch)
>  {
> -	call_rcu(&batch->rcu, pte_free_rcu_callback);
> +	call_rcu_sched(&batch->rcu, pte_free_rcu_callback);
>  }
>  
>  void pgtable_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table, unsigned shift)
> 
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/