ARM: 6066/1: Fix "BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002
authorSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:51:20 +0000 (06:51 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 1 May 2010 10:32:57 +0000 (11:32 +0100)
This patch fixes the preempt leak in the cpuidle path invoked from
cpu-hotplug. The fix is suggested by Russell King and is based
on x86 idea of calling init_idle() on the idle task when it's
re-used which also resets the preempt count amongst other things

dump:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002
Modules linked in:
Backtrace:
[<c0024f90>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0173bc4>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
 r7:c02149e4 r6:c033df00 r5:c7836000 r4:00000000
[<c0173bac>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c003b4f0>] (__schedule_bug+0x60/0x70)
[<c003b490>] (__schedule_bug+0x0/0x70) from [<c0174214>] (schedule+0x98/0x7b8)
 r5:c7836000 r4:c7836000
[<c017417c>] (schedule+0x0/0x7b8) from [<c00228c4>] (cpu_idle+0xb4/0xd4)
# [<c0022810>] (cpu_idle+0x0/0xd4) from [<c0171dd8>] (secondary_start_kernel+0xe0/0xf0)
 r5:c7836000 r4:c0205f40
[<c0171cf8>] (secondary_start_kernel+0x0/0xf0) from [<c002d57c>] (prm_rmw_mod_reg_bits+0x88/0xa4)
 r7:c02149e4 r6:00000001 r5:00000001 r4:c7836000
Backtrace aborted due to bad frame pointer <c7837fbc>

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c

index 577543f..a01194e 100644 (file)
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
                        return PTR_ERR(idle);
                }
                ci->idle = idle;
+       } else {
+               /*
+                * Since this idle thread is being re-used, call
+                * init_idle() to reinitialize the thread structure.
+                */
+               init_idle(idle, cpu);
        }
 
        /*