linux-kernel - Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:56:26 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> I got a report lately involving context tracking. Not sure if it's
> the same here but the issue was that context tracking uses per cpu data
> and per cpu allocation use vmalloc and vmalloc'ed area can fault due to
> lazy paging.

This is complete nonsense. pcpu allocations are populated right
away. Otherwise no single line of kernel code which uses dynamically
allocated per cpu storage would be safe.
 
Thanks,

	tglx
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