[PATCH V3] riscv: patch_text: Fixup last cpu should be master

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at rivosinc.com
Wed Apr 6 12:06:31 PDT 2022


On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:13:36 PDT (-0700), Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:16:49PM +0800, guoren at kernel.org wrote:
>> From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
>>
>> These patch_text implementations are using stop_machine_cpuslocked
>> infrastructure with atomic cpu_count. The original idea: When the
>> master CPU patch_text, the others should wait for it. But current
>> implementation is using the first CPU as master, which couldn't
>> guarantee the remaining CPUs are waiting. This patch changes the
>> last CPU as the master to solve the potential risk.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
>> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> What commit id does this change fix?

I think it's been there since the beginning of our text patching, so

Fixes: 043cb41a85de ("riscv: introduce interfaces to patch kernel code")

seems like the best bet, but I'll go take another look before merging 
it.  That's confusing here, as I acked it, but that was for an earlier 
version that touched more than one arch so it was more ambiguous as to 
which tree it was going through (IIRC I said one of those "LMK if you 
want it through my tree, but here's an Ack in case someone else wants to 
take it" sort of things, as I usually do when it's ambiguous).

Without a changelog, cover letter, or the other patches in the set it's 
kind of hard to tell, though ;)



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