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Commit b8c4c96e authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by Pekka Enberg
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SLUB: Write to per cpu data when allocating it



It turns out that the cmpxchg16b emulation has to access vmalloced
percpu memory with interrupts disabled. If the memory has never
been touched before then the fault necessary to establish the
mapping will not to occur and the kernel will fail on boot.

Fix that by reusing the CONFIG_PREEMPT code that writes the
cpu number into a field on every cpu. Writing to the per cpu
area before causes the mapping to be established before we get
to a cmpxchg16b emulation.

Tested-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
parent f9b615de
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