On 4/23/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> In [patch 3/7] Containers (V8): Add generic multi-subsystem API to
> containers, you have forcefully enabled interrupt in
> container_init_subsys() with spin_unlock_irq() which breaks on PPC64.
>
>
> > +static void container_init_subsys(struct container_subsys *ss) {
> > + int retval;
> > + struct list_head *l;
> > + printk(KERN_ERR "Initializing container subsys %s\n",
> > ss->name);
> > +
> > + /* Create the top container state for this subsystem */
> > + ss->root = &rootnode;
> > + retval = ss->create(ss, dummytop);
> > + BUG_ON(retval);
> > + init_container_css(ss, dummytop);
> > +
> > + /* Update all container groups to contain a subsys
> > + * pointer to this state - since the subsystem is
> > + * newly registered, all tasks and hence all container
> > + * groups are in the subsystem's top container. */
> > + spin_lock_irq(&container_group_lock);
> > + l = &init_container_group.list;
> > + do {
> > + struct container_group *cg =
> > + list_entry(l, struct container_group, list);
> > + cg->subsys[ss->subsys_id] =
> > dummytop->subsys[ss->subsys_id];
> > + l = l->next;
> > + } while (l != &init_container_group.list);
> > + spin_unlock_irq(&container_group_lock);
>
> Interrupt gets enabled here and on PPC64, the kernel takes a pending
> decrementer and crashes because it is too early to handle them.
>
> Use of irqsave and restore routines would fix the problem.
OK, thanks. I'll add that change.
Paul
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