[Skiboot] [PATCH] core/cpu: Fix memory allocation for job array

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Sep 3 15:35:40 AEST 2018


On 09/02/2018 03:29 PM, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> fixes: 7a3f307e core/cpu: parallelise global CPU register setting jobs
> 
> This bug would result in boot-hang on some configurations due to
> cpu_wait_job() endlessly waiting for the last bogus jobs[cpu->pir] pointer.
> 
> Reported-by: Stephanie Swanson <swanman at us.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Good catch. I had gone through this code at least twice .. Somehow this didn't 
strike me.

Reviewed-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-Vasant



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