Thomas Gleixner a899418167 hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during cpu up/down ... When a cpu goes up some architectures (e.g. x86) have to walk the irq space to set up the vector space for the cpu. While this needs extra protection at the architecture level we can avoid a few race conditions by preventing the concurrent allocation/free of irq descriptors and the associated data. When a cpu goes down it moves the interrupts which are targeted to this cpu away by reassigning the affinities. While this happens interrupts can be allocated and freed, which opens a can of race conditions in the code which reassignes the affinities because interrupt descriptors might be freed underneath. Example: CPU1 CPU2 cpu_up/down irq_desc = irq_to_desc(irq); remove_from_radix_tree(desc); raw_spin_lock(&desc->lock); free(desc); We could protect the irq descriptors with RCU, but that would require a full tree change of all accesses to interrupt descriptors. But fortunately these kind of race conditions are rather limited to a few things like cpu hotplug. The normal setup/teardown is very well serialized. So the simpler and obvious solution is: Prevent allocation and freeing of interrupt descriptors accross cpu hotplug. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: xiao jin <jin.xiao@intel.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150705171102.063519515@linutronix.de		2015-07-08 11:32:25 +02:00
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autoprobe.c
chip.c
debug.h
devres.c
dummychip.c
generic-chip.c
handle.c
internals.h	hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during cpu up/down	2015-07-08 11:32:25 +02:00
irqdesc.c
irqdomain.c
Kconfig
Makefile
manage.c
migration.c
msi.c
pm.c
proc.c
resend.c
settings.h
spurious.c