From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:22:36 +0000 (+0200) Subject: tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbd44a607a1a5019bc32c3615cead8c5ee8f89c9;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks commit b352bc1cbc (tick: Convert broadcast cpu bitmaps to cpumask_var_t) broke CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK in a very subtle way. Instead of allocating the cpumasks with zalloc_cpumask_var it uses alloc_cpumask_var, so we can get random data there, which of course confuses the logic completely and causes random failures. Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305032015060.2990@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index 61d00a8cdf2f..d70cdc42c829 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -785,11 +785,11 @@ bool tick_broadcast_oneshot_available(void) void __init tick_broadcast_init(void) { - alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); - alloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT); + zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); + zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT); #ifdef CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT - alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); - alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_pending_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); - alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_force_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); + zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); + zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_pending_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); + zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_force_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); #endif }