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[PATCH] timer initialisation fix
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We need the boot CPU's tvec_bases[] entry to be initialised super-early in
boot, for early_serial_setup().  That runs within setup_arch(), before even
per-cpu areas are initialised.

The patch changes tvec_bases to use compile-time initialisation, and adds a
separate array `tvec_base_done' to keep track of which CPU has had its
tvec_bases[] entry initialised (because we can no longer use the zeroness of
that tvec_bases[] entry to determine whether it has been initialised).

Thanks to Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> for diagnosing this.

Cc: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 11, 2006
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29 changes: 19 additions & 10 deletions kernel/timer.c
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Expand Up @@ -81,9 +81,10 @@ struct tvec_t_base_s {
} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;

typedef struct tvec_t_base_s tvec_base_t;
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(tvec_base_t *, tvec_bases);

tvec_base_t boot_tvec_bases;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_tvec_bases);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(tvec_base_t *, tvec_bases) = { &boot_tvec_bases };

static inline void set_running_timer(tvec_base_t *base,
struct timer_list *timer)
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{
int j;
tvec_base_t *base;
static char __devinitdata tvec_base_done[NR_CPUS];

base = per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu);
if (!base) {
if (!tvec_base_done[cpu]) {
static char boot_done;

/*
* Cannot do allocation in init_timers as that runs before the
* allocator initializes (and would waste memory if there are
* more possible CPUs than will ever be installed/brought up).
*/
if (boot_done) {
/*
* The APs use this path later in boot
*/
base = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*base), GFP_KERNEL,
cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!base)
return -ENOMEM;
memset(base, 0, sizeof(*base));
per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu) = base;
} else {
base = &boot_tvec_bases;
/*
* This is for the boot CPU - we use compile-time
* static initialisation because per-cpu memory isn't
* ready yet and because the memory allocators are not
* initialised either.
*/
boot_done = 1;
base = &boot_tvec_bases;
}
per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu) = base;
tvec_base_done[cpu] = 1;
} else {
base = per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu);
}

spin_lock_init(&base->lock);
for (j = 0; j < TVN_SIZE; j++) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(base->tv5.vec + j);
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