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Commit 4d202c8c authored by Gautham R. Shenoy's avatar Gautham R. Shenoy Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/xive: Fix loop exit-condition in xive_find_target_in_mask()

xive_find_target_in_mask() has the following for(;;) loop which has a
bug when @first == cpumask_first(@mask) and condition 1 fails to hold
for every CPU in @mask. In this case we loop forever in the for-loop.

  first = cpu;
  for (;;) {
  	  if (cpu_online(cpu) && xive_try_pick_target(cpu)) // condition 1
		  return cpu;
	  cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, mask);
	  if (cpu == first) // condition 2
		  break;

	  if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) // condition 3
		  cpu = cpumask_first(mask);
  }

This is because, when @first == cpumask_first(@mask), we never hit the
condition 2 (cpu == first) since prior to this check, we would have
executed "cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, mask)" which will set the value of
@cpu to a value greater than @first or to nr_cpus_ids. When this is
coupled with the fact that condition 1 is not met, we will never exit
this loop.

This was discovered by the hard-lockup detector while running LTP test
concurrently with SMT switch tests.

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