From b8c4c96ed4cdecf5ae51fc6f4c006658e873047f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:51:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] SLUB: Write to per cpu data when allocating it It turns out that the cmpxchg16b emulation has to access vmalloced percpu memory with interrupts disabled. If the memory has never been touched before then the fault necessary to establish the mapping will not to occur and the kernel will fail on boot. Fix that by reusing the CONFIG_PREEMPT code that writes the cpu number into a field on every cpu. Writing to the per cpu area before causes the mapping to be established before we get to a cmpxchg16b emulation. Tested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index a6a783594ad..f881874843a 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1604,7 +1604,7 @@ static inline void note_cmpxchg_failure(const char *n, void init_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s) { -#if defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) +#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL int cpu; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) -- 2.20.1