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Zachary Amsden 3908fd2ed9 [PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger 
It is possible to have tasklets get scheduled before softirqd has had a chance
to spawn on all CPUs.  This is totally harmless; after success during action
CPU_UP_PREPARE, action CPU_ONLINE will be called, which immediately wakes
softirqd on the appropriate CPU to process the already pending tasklets.  So
there is no danger of having a missed wakeup for any tasklets that were
already pending.

In particular, i386 is affected by this during startup, and is visible when
using a very large initrd; during the time it takes for the initrd to be
decompressed, a timer IRQ can come in and schedule RCU callbacks.  It is also
possible that resending of a hardware IRQ via a softirq triggers the same bug.

Because of different timing conditions, this shows up in all emulators and
virtual machines tested, including Xen, VMware, Virtual PC, and Qemu.  It is
also possible to trigger on native hardware with a large enough initrd,
although I don't have a reliable case demonstrating that.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
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irq [PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locks 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
power [PATCH] Export pm_suspend for the shared APM emulation 2006-12-07 08:39:32 -08:00
time [PATCH] time_adjust cleared before use 2006-10-28 11:30:55 -07:00
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acct.c [PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locks 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
audit.h [PATCH] audit: AUDIT_PERM support 2006-09-11 13:32:30 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] kernel core: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc 2006-12-07 08:39:41 -08:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h 2006-12-04 02:00:29 -05:00
capability.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
configs.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
cpu.c [PATCH] suspend: don't change cpus_allowed for task initiating the suspend 2006-12-07 08:39:28 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
delayacct.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
dma.c [PATCH] kernel-doc for kernel/dma.c 2006-10-03 08:03:41 -07:00
exec_domain.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
exit.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup do_exit() path 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
extable.c [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup ->signal->stats allocation 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] __user annotations: futex 2006-10-10 15:37:22 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] futex: init error check 2006-12-07 08:39:41 -08:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_nanosleep() doesn't return the remaining time in compatibility mode 2006-09-29 09:18:15 -07:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c [PATCH] /proc/kallsyms reports lower-case types for some non-exported symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:31 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c [PATCH] kernel core: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc 2006-12-07 08:39:41 -08:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] memory ordering in __kfifo primitives 2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
kmod.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
ksysfs.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
kthread.c WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data 2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
latency.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: more chains 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] lockdep: procfs 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
lockdep.c [PATCH] remove kernel/lockdep.c:lockdep_internal 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] srcu-3: RCU variant permitting read-side blocking 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
module.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failures 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
mutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
mutex.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
mutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
nsproxy.c [PATCH] kernel/nsproxy.c: use kmemdup() 2006-10-20 10:26:44 -07:00
panic.c [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls 2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
params.c [PATCH] module_subsys: initialize earlier 2006-09-29 09:18:08 -07:00
pid.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: prevent signal delivery starvation 2006-10-17 08:18:43 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] remove the syslog interface when printk is disabled 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() 2006-12-07 08:39:40 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] rcu: add sched torture type to rcutorture 2006-10-04 07:55:31 -07:00
relay.c WorkStruct: make allyesconfig 2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
resource.c [PATCH] kernel-doc for kernel/resource.c 2006-10-03 08:03:41 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h [PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support 2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
rtmutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rtmutex-tester.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
rtmutex.c [PATCH] clean up and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex 2006-09-29 09:18:09 -07:00
rtmutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rwsem.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove rwsem locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] sched: correct output of show_state() 2006-12-07 08:39:42 -08:00
seccomp.c
signal.c [PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback 2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() 2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
srcu.c [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyright 2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
sys.c WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data 2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] sysctl: string length calculated is wrong if it contains negative numbers 2006-12-07 08:39:42 -08:00
taskstats.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c 2006-10-01 00:39:26 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
tsacct.c [PATCH] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-free 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
uid16.c [PATCH] Add more prevent_tail_call() 2006-04-19 16:27:18 -07:00
unwind.c [PATCH] x86-64: work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind 2006-11-28 20:12:59 +01:00
user.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
utsname.c [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag 2006-10-02 07:57:22 -07:00
wait.c [PATCH] uninline init_waitqueue_head() 2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00