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Subject[PATCH 16/35] percpu: fix percpu accessors to potentially !cpu_possible() cpus From: Rusty Russell <>
Percpu areas are only allocated for possible cpus.  In general, you
shouldn't access random cpu's percpu areas: you're corrupting memory.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
---
arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c | 2 +-
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.28.orig/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ linux-2.6.28/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int m
* accounting. At that time they also adjust their APIC timers
* accordingly.
*/
- for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; ++i)
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i)
per_cpu(prof_multiplier, i) = multiplier;

return 0;
--- linux-2.6.28.orig/arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
+++ linux-2.6.28/arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int m
* new values until the next timer interrupt in which they do process
* accounting.
*/
- for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; ++i)
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i)
per_cpu(prof_multiplier, i) = multiplier;

return 0;
--- linux-2.6.28.orig/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c
+++ linux-2.6.28/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ void pnpbios_calls_init(union pnp_bios_i

set_base(bad_bios_desc, __va((unsigned long)0x40 << 4));
_set_limit((char *)&bad_bios_desc, 4095 - (0x40 << 4));
- for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
struct desc_struct *gdt = get_cpu_gdt_table(i);
if (!gdt)
continue;
--


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