linux-kernel - [tip:x86/urgent] x86, alternative: Call stop_machine_text

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Message-ID: <tip-404ba5d7bb958d3d788bdaa0debc0bdf60f13ffe@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:10:03 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	jbaron@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, alternative: Call stop_machine_text_poke() on all cpus

Commit-ID:  404ba5d7bb958d3d788bdaa0debc0bdf60f13ffe
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/404ba5d7bb958d3d788bdaa0debc0bdf60f13ffe
Author:     Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:20:27 -0400
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:42:58 -0700

x86, alternative: Call stop_machine_text_poke() on all cpus

Currently, text_poke_smp() passes a NULL as the third argument to
__stop_machine(), which will only run stop_machine_text_poke()
on 1 cpu. Change NULL -> cpu_online_mask, as stop_machine_text_poke()
is intended to be run on all cpus.

I actually didn't notice any problems with stop_machine_text_poke()
only being called on 1 cpu, but found this via code inspection.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101028152026.GB2875@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index a36bb90..5ceeca3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
 	atomic_set(&stop_machine_first, 1);
 	wrote_text = 0;
 	/* Use __stop_machine() because the caller already got online_cpus. */
-	__stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
+	__stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, cpu_online_mask);
 	return addr;
 }
 
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