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

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Sat Apr 17 05:59:44 EDT 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philby John [mailto:pjohn at mvista.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 3:22 PM
> To: Shilimkar, Santosh
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Russell King; Sundar R IYER; Catalin Marinas
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Fix "BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002
> 
> Hello Santosh,
> 
> On 04/17/2010 01:45 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > 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);
> 
> Since Sundar was the first to suggest this fix, shouldn't his SOB be
> included as well instead of CC ? Or did I miss a mail thread ?
Probably you missed the initial thread. Russell suggested this some time 
back and top of my alternate patch and not Sundar. 

Since he was interested in the fix I added Cc. Adding SOB is no problem
really but just to be clear on the thread.

Regards,
Santosh



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