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Grygorii Strashko 11ce4b33ae ARM: 8672/1: mm: remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early()
The below backtrace can be observed on -rt kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_MODULE_RONX (4.9 kernel CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA) option enabled:

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:993
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 14, name: migration/0
 1 lock held by migration/0/14:
  #0:  (tasklist_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c01183e8>] update_sections_early+0x24/0xdc
 irq event stamp: 38
 hardirqs last  enabled at (37): [<c08f6f7c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x68
 hardirqs last disabled at (38): [<c01fdfe8>] multi_cpu_stop+0xd8/0x138
 softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<c01303ec>] copy_process.part.5+0x238/0x1b64
 softirqs last disabled at (0): [<  (null)>]   (null)
 Preemption disabled at: [<c01fe244>] cpu_stopper_thread+0x80/0x10c
 CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 4.9.21-rt16-02220-g49e319c #15
 Hardware name: Generic DRA74X (Flattened Device Tree)
 [<c0112014>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010d370>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
 [<c010d370>] (show_stack) from [<c049beb8>] (dump_stack+0xa8/0xd4)
 [<c049beb8>] (dump_stack) from [<c01631a0>] (___might_sleep+0x1bc/0x2ac)
 [<c01631a0>] (___might_sleep) from [<c08f7244>] (__rt_spin_lock+0x1c/0x30)
 [<c08f7244>] (__rt_spin_lock) from [<c08f77a4>] (rt_read_lock+0x54/0x68)
 [<c08f77a4>] (rt_read_lock) from [<c01183e8>] (update_sections_early+0x24/0xdc)
 [<c01183e8>] (update_sections_early) from [<c01184b0>] (__fix_kernmem_perms+0x10/0x1c)
 [<c01184b0>] (__fix_kernmem_perms) from [<c01fe010>] (multi_cpu_stop+0x100/0x138)
 [<c01fe010>] (multi_cpu_stop) from [<c01fe24c>] (cpu_stopper_thread+0x88/0x10c)
 [<c01fe24c>] (cpu_stopper_thread) from [<c015edc4>] (smpboot_thread_fn+0x174/0x31c)
 [<c015edc4>] (smpboot_thread_fn) from [<c015a988>] (kthread+0xf0/0x108)
 [<c015a988>] (kthread) from [<c0108818>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
 Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K (c0d00000 - c0e00000)

The stop_machine() is called with cpus = NULL from fix_kernmem_perms() and
mark_rodata_ro() which means only one CPU will execute
update_sections_early() while all other CPUs will spin and wait. Hence,
it's safe to remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early(). As part
of this change also mark functions which are local to this module as
static.

Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
2017-04-26 10:59:36 +01:00
Documentation ARM: 8659/1: l2c: allow CA9 optimizations to be disabled 2017-03-17 10:01:26 +00:00
arch ARM: 8672/1: mm: remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early() 2017-04-26 10:59:36 +01:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-03-03 10:53:35 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
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sound sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
tools Second batch of KVM changes for 4.11 merge window 2017-03-04 11:36:19 -08:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.