Dear all,

Thank you for the great community support and support from Sebastian to
provide me this patch. I wanted to send this email to inform you and
perhaps get some information on how I could keep myself updated on updates
in regards to linux-rt. I apologize if I'm spamming you with this email.

I noticed `Bug: Scheduling while atomic` on ahci after building 4.9 rt and
reported the issue on oftc channel. Sebastian quickly helped me get a patch
and my `journalctl -f` was clean without any such messages. Yesterday I
decided to build 4.11 without the patch but I saw a whole bunch of similar
bug logs not just on ahci but on my nic card as well among a few others.
There were a few instances where I had to hard shutdown my machine. I
patched 4.11 with Sebastian's patch again and so far it's been okay for
about 24 hours and going.

My concern is, how I can provide more information to resolve this issue,
perhaps in the next release. Please let me know how I can be of help.

Thank you

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <
[email protected]> wrote:

> get_cpu_ptr() disables preemption and returns the ->flush_queue object
> of the current CPU. raw_cpu_ptr() does the same except that it not
> disable preemption which means the scheduler can move it to another CPU
> after it obtained the per-CPU object.
> In this case this is not bad because the data structure itself is
> protected with a spin_lock. This change shouldn't matter in general
> but on RT it does because the sleeping lock can't be accessed with
> disabled preemption.
>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
> index 4ad7e5e31943..943efbc08128 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
> @@ -1911,7 +1911,7 @@ static void queue_add(struct dma_ops_domain *dom,
>         pages     = __roundup_pow_of_two(pages);
>         address >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> -       queue = get_cpu_ptr(dom->flush_queue);
> +       queue = raw_cpu_ptr(dom->flush_queue);
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&queue->lock, flags);
>
>         /*
> @@ -1940,8 +1940,6 @@ static void queue_add(struct dma_ops_domain *dom,
>
>         if (atomic_cmpxchg(&dom->flush_timer_on, 0, 1) == 0)
>                 mod_timer(&dom->flush_timer, jiffies +
> msecs_to_jiffies(10));
> -
> -       put_cpu_ptr(dom->flush_queue);
>  }
>
>  static void queue_flush_timeout(unsigned long data)
> --
> 2.14.1
>
>
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