[PATCH] powerpc/perf: Fix IMC allocation routine

Guilherme G. Piccoli gpiccoli at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Oct 20 06:41:33 AEDT 2017


When setting nr_cpus=1, we observed a crash in IMC code during boot
due to a missing allocation: basically, IMC code is taking the number
of threads into account in imc_mem_init() and if we manually set
nr_cpus for a value that is not multiple of the number of threads per
core, an integer division in that function will discard the decimal
portion, leading IMC to not allocate one mem_info struct. This causes
a NULL pointer dereference later, on is_core_imc_mem_inited().

This patch just rounds that division up, fixing the bug.

Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Anju, looks good to you? Tested in P9 with latest FW available.

 arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
index 88126245881b..92ae5de0bbac 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ static int init_nest_pmu_ref(void)
 
 static void cleanup_all_core_imc_memory(void)
 {
-	int i, nr_cores = num_present_cpus() / threads_per_core;
+	int i, nr_cores = DIV_ROUND_UP(num_present_cpus(), threads_per_core);
 	struct imc_mem_info *ptr = core_imc_pmu->mem_info;
 	int size = core_imc_pmu->counter_mem_size;
 
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ static int imc_mem_init(struct imc_pmu *pmu_ptr, struct device_node *parent,
 		if (!pmu_ptr->pmu.name)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		nr_cores = num_present_cpus() / threads_per_core;
+		nr_cores = DIV_ROUND_UP(num_present_cpus(), threads_per_core);
 		pmu_ptr->mem_info = kcalloc(nr_cores, sizeof(struct imc_mem_info),
 								GFP_KERNEL);
 
-- 
2.14.2



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