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author | Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> | 2013-03-11 13:52:12 +0100 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2013-05-15 19:35:52 +0100 |
commit | 9394c1c65e61eb6f4c1c99f342b49e451ec337b6 (patch) | |
tree | 6489788b82160a0d4361f15fa7647a3cc9fce955 /arch/arm/include | |
parent | f722406faae2d073cc1d01063d1123c35425939e (diff) |
ARM: 7669/1: keep __my_cpu_offset consistent with generic one
Commit 14318efb(ARM: 7587/1: implement optimized percpu variable access)
introduces arm's __my_cpu_offset to optimize percpu vaiable access,
which really works well on hackbench, but will cause __my_cpu_offset
to return garbage value before it is initialized in cpu_init() called
by setup_arch, so accessing percpu variable before setup_arch may cause
kernel hang. But generic __my_cpu_offset always returns zero before
percpu area is brought up, and won't hang kernel.
So the patch tries to clear __my_cpu_offset on boot CPU early
to avoid boot hang.
At least now percpu variable is accessed by lockdep before
setup_arch(), and enabling CONFIG_LOCK_STAT or CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP
can trigger kernel hang.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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