On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:56 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> The print_other_cpu_stall() function accesses a number of rcu_node
> fields without protection from the ->lock.  In theory, this is not
> a problem because the fields accessed are all integers, but in
> practice the compiler can get nasty.  Therefore, the commit extends
> the existing critical section to cover the entire loop body.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  kernel/rcutree.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> index 9f44749..fbe43b0 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> @@ -746,14 +746,16 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp)
>       rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rsp, rnp) {
>               raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
>               ndetected += rcu_print_task_stall(rnp);
> -             raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
> -             if (rnp->qsmask == 0)
> +             if (rnp->qsmask == 0) {
> +                     raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
>                       continue;
> +             }
>               for (cpu = 0; cpu <= rnp->grphi - rnp->grplo; cpu++)
>                       if (rnp->qsmask & (1UL << cpu)) {
>                               print_cpu_stall_info(rsp, rnp->grplo + cpu);
>                               ndetected++;
>                       }
> +             raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
>       }

You now cover printk() and all that that can call with a RCU lock.. is
this a good thing?
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