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Subject[patch 8/8] [PATCH] Module per-cpu alignment cannot always be met
-stable review patch.  If anyone has any  objections, please let us know.
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The module code assumes noone will ever ask for a per-cpu area more than
SMP_CACHE_BYTES aligned. However, as these cases show, gcc asks sometimes
asks for 32-byte alignment for the per-cpu section on a module, and if
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT is 4, we hit that BUG_ON(). This is obviously an
unusual combination, as there have been few reports, but better to warn
than die.

See:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html

And more recently:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97006

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
---
kernel/module.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.12.y/kernel/module.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12.y.orig/kernel/module.c
+++ linux-2.6.12.y/kernel/module.c
@@ -249,13 +249,18 @@ static inline unsigned int block_size(in
/* Created by linker magic */
extern char __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];

-static void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align)
+static void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
+ const char *name)
{
unsigned long extra;
unsigned int i;
void *ptr;

- BUG_ON(align > SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
+ if (align > SMP_CACHE_BYTES) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: per-cpu alignment %li > %i\n",
+ name, align, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
+ align = SMP_CACHE_BYTES;
+ }

ptr = __per_cpu_start;
for (i = 0; i < pcpu_num_used; ptr += block_size(pcpu_size[i]), i++) {
@@ -347,7 +352,8 @@ static int percpu_modinit(void)
}
__initcall(percpu_modinit);
#else /* ... !CONFIG_SMP */
-static inline void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align)
+static inline void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
+ const char *name)
{
return NULL;
}
@@ -1554,7 +1560,8 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _
if (pcpuindex) {
/* We have a special allocation for this section. */
percpu = percpu_modalloc(sechdrs[pcpuindex].sh_size,
- sechdrs[pcpuindex].sh_addralign);
+ sechdrs[pcpuindex].sh_addralign,
+ mod->name);
if (!percpu) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto free_mod;
--
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