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Revision 28557cc106e6d2aa8b8c5c7687ea9f8055ff3911 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior on 28 June 2018, 06:26:05 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 28 June 2018, 18:16:44 UTC
Revert commit c7f26ccfb2c3 ("mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption
BUG").  Steven saw a "using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" message
and added a preempt_disable() section around it to keep it quiet.  This
is not the right thing to do it does not fix the real problem.

vmstat_update() is invoked by a kworker on a specific CPU.  This worker
it bound to this CPU.  The name of the worker was "kworker/1:1" so it
should have been a worker which was bound to CPU1.  A worker which can
run on any CPU would have a `u' before the first digit.

smp_processor_id() can be used in a preempt-enabled region as long as
the task is bound to a single CPU which is the case here.  If it could
run on an arbitrary CPU then this is the problem we have an should seek
to resolve.

Not only this smp_processor_id() must not be migrated to another CPU but
also refresh_cpu_vm_stats() which might access wrong per-CPU variables.
Not to mention that other code relies on the fact that such a worker
runs on one specific CPU only.

Therefore revert that commit and we should look instead what broke the
affinity mask of the kworker.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504104451.20278-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 28557cc106e6d2aa8b8c5c7687ea9f8055ff3911 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior on 28 June 2018, 06:26:05 UTC
Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG
Tip revision: 28557cc
diffconfig
#!/usr/bin/python
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# diffconfig - a tool to compare .config files.
#
# originally written in 2006 by Matt Mackall
#  (at least, this was in his bloatwatch source code)
# last worked on 2008 by Tim Bird
#

import sys, os

def usage():
    print("""Usage: diffconfig [-h] [-m] [<config1> <config2>]

Diffconfig is a simple utility for comparing two .config files.
Using standard diff to compare .config files often includes extraneous and
distracting information.  This utility produces sorted output with only the
changes in configuration values between the two files.

Added and removed items are shown with a leading plus or minus, respectively.
Changed items show the old and new values on a single line.

If -m is specified, then output will be in "merge" style, which has the
changed and new values in kernel config option format.

If no config files are specified, .config and .config.old are used.

Example usage:
 $ diffconfig .config config-with-some-changes
-EXT2_FS_XATTR  n
 CRAMFS  n -> y
 EXT2_FS  y -> n
 LOG_BUF_SHIFT  14 -> 16
 PRINTK_TIME  n -> y
""")
    sys.exit(0)

# returns a dictionary of name/value pairs for config items in the file
def readconfig(config_file):
    d = {}
    for line in config_file:
        line = line[:-1]
        if line[:7] == "CONFIG_":
            name, val = line[7:].split("=", 1)
            d[name] = val
        if line[-11:] == " is not set":
            d[line[9:-11]] = "n"
    return d

def print_config(op, config, value, new_value):
    global merge_style

    if merge_style:
        if new_value:
            if new_value=="n":
                print("# CONFIG_%s is not set" % config)
            else:
                print("CONFIG_%s=%s" % (config, new_value))
    else:
        if op=="-":
            print("-%s %s" % (config, value))
        elif op=="+":
            print("+%s %s" % (config, new_value))
        else:
            print(" %s %s -> %s" % (config, value, new_value))

def main():
    global merge_style

    # parse command line args
    if ("-h" in sys.argv or "--help" in sys.argv):
        usage()

    merge_style = 0
    if "-m" in sys.argv:
        merge_style = 1
        sys.argv.remove("-m")

    argc = len(sys.argv)
    if not (argc==1 or argc == 3):
        print("Error: incorrect number of arguments or unrecognized option")
        usage()

    if argc == 1:
        # if no filenames given, assume .config and .config.old
        build_dir=""
        if "KBUILD_OUTPUT" in os.environ:
            build_dir = os.environ["KBUILD_OUTPUT"]+"/"
        configa_filename = build_dir + ".config.old"
        configb_filename = build_dir + ".config"
    else:
        configa_filename = sys.argv[1]
        configb_filename = sys.argv[2]

    try:
        a = readconfig(open(configa_filename))
        b = readconfig(open(configb_filename))
    except (IOError):
        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
        print("I/O error[%s]: %s\n" % (e.args[0],e.args[1]))
        usage()

    # print items in a but not b (accumulate, sort and print)
    old = []
    for config in a:
        if config not in b:
            old.append(config)
    old.sort()
    for config in old:
        print_config("-", config, a[config], None)
        del a[config]

    # print items that changed (accumulate, sort, and print)
    changed = []
    for config in a:
        if a[config] != b[config]:
            changed.append(config)
        else:
            del b[config]
    changed.sort()
    for config in changed:
        print_config("->", config, a[config], b[config])
        del b[config]

    # now print items in b but not in a
    # (items from b that were in a were removed above)
    new = sorted(b.keys())
    for config in new:
        print_config("+", config, None, b[config])

main()
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