[PATCH v2] ARM: Fix "BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Sat Apr 17 04:15:44 EDT 2010


This patch fixes the preempt leak in the cpuidle path invoked from
cpu-hotplug. The fix is suggested by Russell King and is based
on x86 idea of calling init_idle() on the idle task when it's
re-used which also resets the preempt count amongst other things

dump:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002
Modules linked in:
Backtrace:
[<c0024f90>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0173bc4>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
 r7:c02149e4 r6:c033df00 r5:c7836000 r4:00000000
[<c0173bac>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c003b4f0>] (__schedule_bug+0x60/0x70)
[<c003b490>] (__schedule_bug+0x0/0x70) from [<c0174214>] (schedule+0x98/0x7b8)
 r5:c7836000 r4:c7836000
[<c017417c>] (schedule+0x0/0x7b8) from [<c00228c4>] (cpu_idle+0xb4/0xd4)
# [<c0022810>] (cpu_idle+0x0/0xd4) from [<c0171dd8>] (secondary_start_kernel+0xe0/0xf0)
 r5:c7836000 r4:c0205f40
[<c0171cf8>] (secondary_start_kernel+0x0/0xf0) from [<c002d57c>] (prm_rmw_mod_reg_bits+0x88/0xa4)
 r7:c02149e4 r6:00000001 r5:00000001 r4:c7836000
Backtrace aborted due to bad frame pointer <c7837fbc>

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Sundar R IYER <sundar.iyer at stericsson.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/smp.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 57162af..3e14629 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -86,8 +86,14 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 			return PTR_ERR(idle);
 		}
 		ci->idle = idle;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * Since idle thread getting re-used, call
+		 * init_idle() to set up the idle thread for given
+		 * CPU. Additionally it also resets the preempt count
+		 */
+		init_idle(idle, cpu);
 	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Allocate initial page tables to allow the new CPU to
 	 * enable the MMU safely.  This essentially means a set
-- 
1.6.0.4




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