[PATCH v2 3/4] sparc64: remove mm_cpumask clearing to fix kthread_use_mm race

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 13:24:07 AEST 2020


Excerpts from David Miller's message of September 15, 2020 5:59 am:
> From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:52:18 +1000
> 
>  ...
>> The basic fix for sparc64 is to remove its mm_cpumask clearing code. The
>> optimisation could be effectively restored by sending IPIs to mm_cpumask
>> members and having them remove themselves from mm_cpumask. This is more
>> tricky so I leave it as an exercise for someone with a sparc64 SMP.
>> powerpc has a (currently similarly broken) example.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> 
> Sad to see this optimization go away, but what can I do:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> 

Thanks Dave, any objection if we merge this via the powerpc tree
to keep the commits together?

Thanks,
Nick


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