From d4d84fef6d0366b585b7de13527a0faeca84d9ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:19:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] slub: always align cpu_slab to honor cmpxchg_double
requirement
On an architecture without CMPXCHG_LOCAL but with DEBUG_VM enabled,
the VM_BUG_ON() in __pcpu_double_call_return_bool() will cause an early
panic during boot unless we always align cpu_slab properly.
In principle we could remove the alignment-testing VM_BUG_ON() for
architectures that don't have CMPXCHG_LOCAL, but leaving it in means
that new code will tend not to break x86 even if it is introduced
on another platform, and it's low cost to require alignment.
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/percpu.h | 3 +++
mm/slub.c | 12 ++++--------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 8b97308e65df..9ca008f0c542 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ extern void __bad_size_call_parameter(void);
* Special handling for cmpxchg_double. cmpxchg_double is passed two
* percpu variables. The first has to be aligned to a double word
* boundary and the second has to follow directly thereafter.
+ * We enforce this on all architectures even if they don't support
+ * a double cmpxchg instruction, since it's a cheap requirement, and it
+ * avoids breaking the requirement for architectures with the instruction.
*/
#define __pcpu_double_call_return_bool(stem, pcp1, pcp2, ...) \
({ \
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 7be0223531b0..35f351f26193 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2320,16 +2320,12 @@ static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s)
BUILD_BUG_ON(PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE <
SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu));
-#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
/*
- * Must align to double word boundary for the double cmpxchg instructions
- * to work.
+ * Must align to double word boundary for the double cmpxchg
+ * instructions to work; see __pcpu_double_call_return_bool().
*/
- s->cpu_slab = __alloc_percpu(sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu), 2 * sizeof(void *));
-#else
- /* Regular alignment is sufficient */
- s->cpu_slab = alloc_percpu(struct kmem_cache_cpu);
-#endif
+ s->cpu_slab = __alloc_percpu(sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu),
+ 2 * sizeof(void *));
if (!s->cpu_slab)
return 0;
--
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