From d25c1ba2fa1a9a1a4f68bef8edb0efefd79f0012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Loic Prylli Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 02:39:52 -0700 Subject: MTRR: Fix race causing set_mtrr to go into infinite loop Processors synchronization in set_mtrr requires the .gate field to be set after .count field is properly initialized. Without an explicit barrier, the compiler was reordering those memory stores. That was sometimes causing a processor (in ipi_handler) to see the .gate change and decrement .count before the latter is set by set_mtrr() (which then hangs in a infinite loop with irqs disabled). Signed-off-by: Loic Prylli Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c') diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c index 55b005152a1..75dc6d5214b 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c @@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ static void set_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long base, data.smp_size = size; data.smp_type = type; atomic_set(&data.count, num_booting_cpus() - 1); + /* make sure data.count is visible before unleashing other CPUs */ + smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&data.gate,0); /* Start the ball rolling on other CPUs */ @@ -242,6 +244,7 @@ static void set_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long base, /* ok, reset count and toggle gate */ atomic_set(&data.count, num_booting_cpus() - 1); + smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&data.gate,1); /* do our MTRR business */ @@ -260,6 +263,7 @@ static void set_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long base, cpu_relax(); atomic_set(&data.count, num_booting_cpus() - 1); + smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&data.gate,0); /* -- cgit v1.2.3