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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2006-11-17 14:26:18 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-11-17 08:20:09 -0800 |
commit | dc1829a4c378d793fb3b95d56135d89a0d7ff72a (patch) | |
tree | 16f33c80d3f337e6eb330680342ebfceecc03b2e /scripts | |
parent | 0796bdb7e9e4a48b401f4fba1ee5dc79a45528ef (diff) |
[PATCH] i386/x86_64: ACPI cpu_idle_wait() fix
The scheduler on Andreas Friedrich's hyperthreading system stopped
working properly: the scheduler would never move tasks to another CPU!
The lask known working kernel was 2.6.8.
After a couple of attempts to corner the bug, the following smoking gun
was found:
BIOS reported wrong ACPI idfor the processor
CPU#1: set_cpus_allowed(), swapper:1, 3 -> 2
[<c0103bbe>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x34/0x4a
[<c0103ceb>] show_trace+0x2c/0x2e
[<c01045f8>] dump_stack+0x2b/0x2d
[<c0116a77>] set_cpus_allowed+0x52/0xec
[<c0101d86>] cpu_idle_wait+0x2e/0x100
[<c0259c57>] acpi_processor_power_exit+0x45/0x58
[<c0259752>] acpi_processor_remove+0x46/0xea
[<c025c6fb>] acpi_start_single_object+0x47/0x54
[<c025cee5>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0xa4/0xd3
[<c04ab2d7>] acpi_processor_init+0x57/0x77
[<c01004d7>] init+0x146/0x2fd
[<c0103a87>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
a quick look at cpu_idle_wait() shows how broken that code is
on i386: it changes the init task's affinity map but never
restores it ...
and because all userspace tasks get forked by init, they all
inherited that single-CPU affinity mask. x86_64 cloned this
bug too.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andreas Friedrich <andreas.friedrich@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Erig <Wolfgang.Erig@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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