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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux, branch v3.2.29</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>USB: add USB_VENDOR_AND_INTERFACE_INFO() macro</title>
<updated>2012-09-12T02:36:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo Padovan</name>
<email>gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-10T22:10:06+00:00</published>
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commit d81a5d1956731c453b85c141458d4ff5d6cc5366 upstream.

A lot of Broadcom Bluetooth devices provides vendor specific interface
class and we are getting flooded by patches adding new device support.
This change will help us enable support for any other Broadcom with vendor
specific device that arrives in the future.

Only the product id changes for those devices, so this macro would be
perfect for us:

{ USB_VENDOR_AND_INTERFACE_INFO(0x0a5c, 0xff, 0x01, 0x01) }

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan &lt;gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Henrik Rydberg &lt;rydberg@bitmath.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d81a5d1956731c453b85c141458d4ff5d6cc5366 upstream.

A lot of Broadcom Bluetooth devices provides vendor specific interface
class and we are getting flooded by patches adding new device support.
This change will help us enable support for any other Broadcom with vendor
specific device that arrives in the future.

Only the product id changes for those devices, so this macro would be
perfect for us:

{ USB_VENDOR_AND_INTERFACE_INFO(0x0a5c, 0xff, 0x01, 0x01) }

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan &lt;gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Henrik Rydberg &lt;rydberg@bitmath.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: eeti_ts: pass gpio value instead of IRQ</title>
<updated>2012-08-19T17:15:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-30T16:21:37+00:00</published>
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commit 4eef6cbfcc03b294d9d334368a851b35b496ce53 upstream.

The EETI touchscreen asserts its IRQ line as soon as it has data in its
internal buffers. The line is automatically deasserted once all data has
been read via I2C. Hence, the driver has to monitor the GPIO line and
cannot simply rely on the interrupt handler reception.

In the current implementation of the driver, irq_to_gpio() is used to
determine the GPIO number from the i2c_client's IRQ value.

As irq_to_gpio() is not available on all platforms, this patch changes
this and makes the driver ignore the passed in IRQ. Instead, a GPIO is
added to the platform_data struct and gpio_to_irq is used to derive the
IRQ from that GPIO. If this fails, bail out. The driver is only able to
work in environments where the touchscreen GPIO can be mapped to an
IRQ.

Without this patch, building raumfeld_defconfig results in:

drivers/input/touchscreen/eeti_ts.c: In function 'eeti_ts_irq_active':
drivers/input/touchscreen/eeti_ts.c:65:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'irq_to_gpio' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack &lt;zonque@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Neumann &lt;s.neumann@raumfeld.com&gt;
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Haojian Zhuang &lt;haojian.zhuang@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: raumfeld_controller_i2c_board_info.irq was
 initialised using gpio_to_irq(), but this doesn't seem to matter]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 4eef6cbfcc03b294d9d334368a851b35b496ce53 upstream.

The EETI touchscreen asserts its IRQ line as soon as it has data in its
internal buffers. The line is automatically deasserted once all data has
been read via I2C. Hence, the driver has to monitor the GPIO line and
cannot simply rely on the interrupt handler reception.

In the current implementation of the driver, irq_to_gpio() is used to
determine the GPIO number from the i2c_client's IRQ value.

As irq_to_gpio() is not available on all platforms, this patch changes
this and makes the driver ignore the passed in IRQ. Instead, a GPIO is
added to the platform_data struct and gpio_to_irq is used to derive the
IRQ from that GPIO. If this fails, bail out. The driver is only able to
work in environments where the touchscreen GPIO can be mapped to an
IRQ.

Without this patch, building raumfeld_defconfig results in:

drivers/input/touchscreen/eeti_ts.c: In function 'eeti_ts_irq_active':
drivers/input/touchscreen/eeti_ts.c:65:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'irq_to_gpio' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack &lt;zonque@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Neumann &lt;s.neumann@raumfeld.com&gt;
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Haojian Zhuang &lt;haojian.zhuang@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: raumfeld_controller_i2c_board_info.irq was
 initialised using gpio_to_irq(), but this doesn't seem to matter]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: pxa: remove irq_to_gpio from ezx-pcap driver</title>
<updated>2012-08-19T17:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-05T14:58:37+00:00</published>
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commit 59ee93a528b94ef4e81a08db252b0326feff171f upstream.

The irq_to_gpio function was removed from the pxa platform
in linux-3.2, and this driver has been broken since.

There is actually no in-tree user of this driver that adds
this platform device, but the driver can and does get enabled
on some platforms.

Without this patch, building ezx_defconfig results in:

drivers/mfd/ezx-pcap.c: In function 'pcap_isr_work':
drivers/mfd/ezx-pcap.c:205:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'irq_to_gpio' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang &lt;haojian.zhuang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Ribeiro &lt;drwyrm@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
commit 59ee93a528b94ef4e81a08db252b0326feff171f upstream.

The irq_to_gpio function was removed from the pxa platform
in linux-3.2, and this driver has been broken since.

There is actually no in-tree user of this driver that adds
this platform device, but the driver can and does get enabled
on some platforms.

Without this patch, building ezx_defconfig results in:

drivers/mfd/ezx-pcap.c: In function 'pcap_isr_work':
drivers/mfd/ezx-pcap.c:205:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'irq_to_gpio' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang &lt;haojian.zhuang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Ribeiro &lt;drwyrm@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:25:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-31T23:46:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6f72a41f67bb23a6478a0277d97f563830d3f25d'/>
<id>6f72a41f67bb23a6478a0277d97f563830d3f25d</id>
<content type='text'>
commit d833352a4338dc31295ed832a30c9ccff5c7a183 upstream.

If a process creates a large hugetlbfs mapping that is eligible for page
table sharing and forks heavily with children some of whom fault and
others which destroy the mapping then it is possible for page tables to
get corrupted.  Some teardowns of the mapping encounter a "bad pmd" and
output a message to the kernel log.  The final teardown will trigger a
BUG_ON in mm/filemap.c.

This was reproduced in 3.4 but is known to have existed for a long time
and goes back at least as far as 2.6.37.  It was probably was introduced
in 2.6.20 by [39dde65c: shared page table for hugetlb page].  The messages
look like this;

[  ..........] Lots of bad pmd messages followed by this
[  127.164256] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04fe8(80000003de4000e7).
[  127.164257] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04ff0(80000003de6000e7).
[  127.164258] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04ff8(80000003de0000e7).
[  127.186778] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  127.186781] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:134!
[  127.186782] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  127.186783] CPU 7
[  127.186784] Modules linked in: af_packet cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf ext3 jbd dm_mod coretemp crc32c_intel usb_storage ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel i2c_i801 r8169 mii uas sr_mod cdrom sg iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp serio_raw cryptd aes_x86_64 e1000e pci_hotplug dcdbas aes_generic container microcode ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sd_mod crc_t10dif i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit ehci_hcd ahci libahci usbcore rtc_cmos usb_common button i2c_core intel_agp video intel_gtt fan processor thermal thermal_sys hwmon ata_generic pata_atiixp libata scsi_mod
[  127.186801]
[  127.186802] Pid: 9017, comm: hugetlbfs-test Not tainted 3.4.0-autobuild #53 Dell Inc. OptiPlex 990/06D7TR
[  127.186804] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810ed6ce&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810ed6ce&gt;] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15e/0x160
[  127.186809] RSP: 0000:ffff8804144b5c08  EFLAGS: 00010002
[  127.186810] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffea000a5c9000 RCX: 00000000ffffffc0
[  127.186811] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: ffff88042dfdad00
[  127.186812] RBP: ffff8804144b5c18 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: 0000000000000003
[  127.186813] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000002d R12: ffff880412ff83d8
[  127.186814] R13: ffff880412ff83d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880412ff83d8
[  127.186815] FS:  00007fe18ed2c700(0000) GS:ffff88042dce0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  127.186816] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[  127.186817] CR2: 00007fe340000503 CR3: 0000000417a14000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[  127.186818] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  127.186819] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  127.186820] Process hugetlbfs-test (pid: 9017, threadinfo ffff8804144b4000, task ffff880417f803c0)
[  127.186821] Stack:
[  127.186822]  ffffea000a5c9000 0000000000000000 ffff8804144b5c48 ffffffff810ed83b
[  127.186824]  ffff8804144b5c48 000000000000138a 0000000000001387 ffff8804144b5c98
[  127.186825]  ffff8804144b5d48 ffffffff811bc925 ffff8804144b5cb8 0000000000000000
[  127.186827] Call Trace:
[  127.186829]  [&lt;ffffffff810ed83b&gt;] delete_from_page_cache+0x3b/0x80
[  127.186832]  [&lt;ffffffff811bc925&gt;] truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x220
[  127.186834]  [&lt;ffffffff811bca43&gt;] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x13/0x30
[  127.186837]  [&lt;ffffffff811655c7&gt;] evict+0xa7/0x1b0
[  127.186839]  [&lt;ffffffff811657a3&gt;] iput_final+0xd3/0x1f0
[  127.186840]  [&lt;ffffffff811658f9&gt;] iput+0x39/0x50
[  127.186842]  [&lt;ffffffff81162708&gt;] d_kill+0xf8/0x130
[  127.186843]  [&lt;ffffffff81162812&gt;] dput+0xd2/0x1a0
[  127.186845]  [&lt;ffffffff8114e2d0&gt;] __fput+0x170/0x230
[  127.186848]  [&lt;ffffffff81236e0e&gt;] ? rb_erase+0xce/0x150
[  127.186849]  [&lt;ffffffff8114e3ad&gt;] fput+0x1d/0x30
[  127.186851]  [&lt;ffffffff81117db7&gt;] remove_vma+0x37/0x80
[  127.186853]  [&lt;ffffffff81119182&gt;] do_munmap+0x2d2/0x360
[  127.186855]  [&lt;ffffffff811cc639&gt;] sys_shmdt+0xc9/0x170
[  127.186857]  [&lt;ffffffff81410a39&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  127.186858] Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 43 08 48 8b 00 48 8b 40 28 8b b0 40 03 00 00 85 f6 0f 88 df fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 e7 cb 05 00 e9 d2 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 55 83 e2 fd 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 30 48 89 5d d8 4c 89 65 e0
[  127.186868] RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810ed6ce&gt;] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15e/0x160
[  127.186870]  RSP &lt;ffff8804144b5c08&gt;
[  127.186871] ---[ end trace 7cbac5d1db69f426 ]---

The bug is a race and not always easy to reproduce.  To reproduce it I was
doing the following on a single socket I7-based machine with 16G of RAM.

$ hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:13G
$ echo $((18*1048576*1024)) &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
$ echo $((18*1048576*1024)) &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
$ for i in `seq 1 9000`; do ./hugetlbfs-test; done

On my particular machine, it usually triggers within 10 minutes but
enabling debug options can change the timing such that it never hits.
Once the bug is triggered, the machine is in trouble and needs to be
rebooted.  The machine will respond but processes accessing proc like "ps
aux" will hang due to the BUG_ON.  shutdown will also hang and needs a
hard reset or a sysrq-b.

The basic problem is a race between page table sharing and teardown.  For
the most part page table sharing depends on i_mmap_mutex.  In some cases,
it is also taking the mm-&gt;page_table_lock for the PTE updates but with
shared page tables, it is the i_mmap_mutex that is more important.

Unfortunately it appears to be also insufficient. Consider the following
situation

Process A					Process B
---------					---------
hugetlb_fault					shmdt
  						LockWrite(mmap_sem)
    						  do_munmap
						    unmap_region
						      unmap_vmas
						        unmap_single_vma
						          unmap_hugepage_range
      						            Lock(i_mmap_mutex)
							    Lock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)
							    huge_pmd_unshare/unmap tables &lt;--- (1)
							    Unlock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)
      						            Unlock(i_mmap_mutex)
  huge_pte_alloc				      ...
    Lock(i_mmap_mutex)				      ...
    vma_prio_walk, find svma, spte		      ...
    Lock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)			      ...
    share spte					      ...
    Unlock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)			      ...
    Unlock(i_mmap_mutex)			      ...
  hugetlb_no_page									  &lt;--- (2)
						      free_pgtables
						        unlink_file_vma
							hugetlb_free_pgd_range
						    remove_vma_list

In this scenario, it is possible for Process A to share page tables with
Process B that is trying to tear them down.  The i_mmap_mutex on its own
does not prevent Process A walking Process B's page tables.  At (1) above,
the page tables are not shared yet so it unmaps the PMDs.  Process A sets
up page table sharing and at (2) faults a new entry.  Process B then trips
up on it in free_pgtables.

This patch fixes the problem by adding a new function
__unmap_hugepage_range_final that is only called when the VMA is about to
be destroyed.  This function clears VM_MAYSHARE during
unmap_hugepage_range() under the i_mmap_mutex.  This makes the VMA
ineligible for sharing and avoids the race.  Superficially this looks like
it would then be vunerable to truncate and madvise issues but hugetlbfs
has its own truncate handlers so does not use unmap_mapping_range() and
does not support madvise(DONTNEED).

This should be treated as a -stable candidate if it is merged.

Test program is as follows. The test case was mostly written by Michal
Hocko with a few minor changes to reproduce this bug.

==== CUT HERE ====

static size_t huge_page_size = (2UL &lt;&lt; 20);
static size_t nr_huge_page_A = 512;
static size_t nr_huge_page_B = 5632;

unsigned int get_random(unsigned int max)
{
	struct timeval tv;

	gettimeofday(&amp;tv, NULL);
	srandom(tv.tv_usec);
	return random() % max;
}

static void play(void *addr, size_t size)
{
	unsigned char *start = addr,
		      *end = start + size,
		      *a;
	start += get_random(size/2);

	/* we could itterate on huge pages but let's give it more time. */
	for (a = start; a &lt; end; a += 4096)
		*a = 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	key_t key = IPC_PRIVATE;
	size_t sizeA = nr_huge_page_A * huge_page_size;
	size_t sizeB = nr_huge_page_B * huge_page_size;
	int shmidA, shmidB;
	void *addrA = NULL, *addrB = NULL;
	int nr_children = 300, n = 0;

	if ((shmidA = shmget(key, sizeA, IPC_CREAT|SHM_HUGETLB|0660)) == -1) {
		perror("shmget:");
		return 1;
	}

	if ((addrA = shmat(shmidA, addrA, SHM_R|SHM_W)) == (void *)-1UL) {
		perror("shmat");
		return 1;
	}
	if ((shmidB = shmget(key, sizeB, IPC_CREAT|SHM_HUGETLB|0660)) == -1) {
		perror("shmget:");
		return 1;
	}

	if ((addrB = shmat(shmidB, addrB, SHM_R|SHM_W)) == (void *)-1UL) {
		perror("shmat");
		return 1;
	}

fork_child:
	switch(fork()) {
		case 0:
			switch (n%3) {
			case 0:
				play(addrA, sizeA);
				break;
			case 1:
				play(addrB, sizeB);
				break;
			case 2:
				break;
			}
			break;
		case -1:
			perror("fork:");
			break;
		default:
			if (++n &lt; nr_children)
				goto fork_child;
			play(addrA, sizeA);
			break;
	}
	shmdt(addrA);
	shmdt(addrB);
	do {
		wait(NULL);
	} while (--n &gt; 0);
	shmctl(shmidA, IPC_RMID, NULL);
	shmctl(shmidB, IPC_RMID, NULL);
	return 0;
}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: name the declaration's args, fix CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n build]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop the mmu_gather * parameters]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d833352a4338dc31295ed832a30c9ccff5c7a183 upstream.

If a process creates a large hugetlbfs mapping that is eligible for page
table sharing and forks heavily with children some of whom fault and
others which destroy the mapping then it is possible for page tables to
get corrupted.  Some teardowns of the mapping encounter a "bad pmd" and
output a message to the kernel log.  The final teardown will trigger a
BUG_ON in mm/filemap.c.

This was reproduced in 3.4 but is known to have existed for a long time
and goes back at least as far as 2.6.37.  It was probably was introduced
in 2.6.20 by [39dde65c: shared page table for hugetlb page].  The messages
look like this;

[  ..........] Lots of bad pmd messages followed by this
[  127.164256] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04fe8(80000003de4000e7).
[  127.164257] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04ff0(80000003de6000e7).
[  127.164258] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04ff8(80000003de0000e7).
[  127.186778] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  127.186781] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:134!
[  127.186782] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  127.186783] CPU 7
[  127.186784] Modules linked in: af_packet cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf ext3 jbd dm_mod coretemp crc32c_intel usb_storage ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel i2c_i801 r8169 mii uas sr_mod cdrom sg iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp serio_raw cryptd aes_x86_64 e1000e pci_hotplug dcdbas aes_generic container microcode ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sd_mod crc_t10dif i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit ehci_hcd ahci libahci usbcore rtc_cmos usb_common button i2c_core intel_agp video intel_gtt fan processor thermal thermal_sys hwmon ata_generic pata_atiixp libata scsi_mod
[  127.186801]
[  127.186802] Pid: 9017, comm: hugetlbfs-test Not tainted 3.4.0-autobuild #53 Dell Inc. OptiPlex 990/06D7TR
[  127.186804] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810ed6ce&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810ed6ce&gt;] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15e/0x160
[  127.186809] RSP: 0000:ffff8804144b5c08  EFLAGS: 00010002
[  127.186810] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffea000a5c9000 RCX: 00000000ffffffc0
[  127.186811] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: ffff88042dfdad00
[  127.186812] RBP: ffff8804144b5c18 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: 0000000000000003
[  127.186813] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000002d R12: ffff880412ff83d8
[  127.186814] R13: ffff880412ff83d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880412ff83d8
[  127.186815] FS:  00007fe18ed2c700(0000) GS:ffff88042dce0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  127.186816] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[  127.186817] CR2: 00007fe340000503 CR3: 0000000417a14000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[  127.186818] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  127.186819] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  127.186820] Process hugetlbfs-test (pid: 9017, threadinfo ffff8804144b4000, task ffff880417f803c0)
[  127.186821] Stack:
[  127.186822]  ffffea000a5c9000 0000000000000000 ffff8804144b5c48 ffffffff810ed83b
[  127.186824]  ffff8804144b5c48 000000000000138a 0000000000001387 ffff8804144b5c98
[  127.186825]  ffff8804144b5d48 ffffffff811bc925 ffff8804144b5cb8 0000000000000000
[  127.186827] Call Trace:
[  127.186829]  [&lt;ffffffff810ed83b&gt;] delete_from_page_cache+0x3b/0x80
[  127.186832]  [&lt;ffffffff811bc925&gt;] truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x220
[  127.186834]  [&lt;ffffffff811bca43&gt;] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x13/0x30
[  127.186837]  [&lt;ffffffff811655c7&gt;] evict+0xa7/0x1b0
[  127.186839]  [&lt;ffffffff811657a3&gt;] iput_final+0xd3/0x1f0
[  127.186840]  [&lt;ffffffff811658f9&gt;] iput+0x39/0x50
[  127.186842]  [&lt;ffffffff81162708&gt;] d_kill+0xf8/0x130
[  127.186843]  [&lt;ffffffff81162812&gt;] dput+0xd2/0x1a0
[  127.186845]  [&lt;ffffffff8114e2d0&gt;] __fput+0x170/0x230
[  127.186848]  [&lt;ffffffff81236e0e&gt;] ? rb_erase+0xce/0x150
[  127.186849]  [&lt;ffffffff8114e3ad&gt;] fput+0x1d/0x30
[  127.186851]  [&lt;ffffffff81117db7&gt;] remove_vma+0x37/0x80
[  127.186853]  [&lt;ffffffff81119182&gt;] do_munmap+0x2d2/0x360
[  127.186855]  [&lt;ffffffff811cc639&gt;] sys_shmdt+0xc9/0x170
[  127.186857]  [&lt;ffffffff81410a39&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  127.186858] Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 43 08 48 8b 00 48 8b 40 28 8b b0 40 03 00 00 85 f6 0f 88 df fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 e7 cb 05 00 e9 d2 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 55 83 e2 fd 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 30 48 89 5d d8 4c 89 65 e0
[  127.186868] RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810ed6ce&gt;] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15e/0x160
[  127.186870]  RSP &lt;ffff8804144b5c08&gt;
[  127.186871] ---[ end trace 7cbac5d1db69f426 ]---

The bug is a race and not always easy to reproduce.  To reproduce it I was
doing the following on a single socket I7-based machine with 16G of RAM.

$ hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:13G
$ echo $((18*1048576*1024)) &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
$ echo $((18*1048576*1024)) &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
$ for i in `seq 1 9000`; do ./hugetlbfs-test; done

On my particular machine, it usually triggers within 10 minutes but
enabling debug options can change the timing such that it never hits.
Once the bug is triggered, the machine is in trouble and needs to be
rebooted.  The machine will respond but processes accessing proc like "ps
aux" will hang due to the BUG_ON.  shutdown will also hang and needs a
hard reset or a sysrq-b.

The basic problem is a race between page table sharing and teardown.  For
the most part page table sharing depends on i_mmap_mutex.  In some cases,
it is also taking the mm-&gt;page_table_lock for the PTE updates but with
shared page tables, it is the i_mmap_mutex that is more important.

Unfortunately it appears to be also insufficient. Consider the following
situation

Process A					Process B
---------					---------
hugetlb_fault					shmdt
  						LockWrite(mmap_sem)
    						  do_munmap
						    unmap_region
						      unmap_vmas
						        unmap_single_vma
						          unmap_hugepage_range
      						            Lock(i_mmap_mutex)
							    Lock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)
							    huge_pmd_unshare/unmap tables &lt;--- (1)
							    Unlock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)
      						            Unlock(i_mmap_mutex)
  huge_pte_alloc				      ...
    Lock(i_mmap_mutex)				      ...
    vma_prio_walk, find svma, spte		      ...
    Lock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)			      ...
    share spte					      ...
    Unlock(mm-&gt;page_table_lock)			      ...
    Unlock(i_mmap_mutex)			      ...
  hugetlb_no_page									  &lt;--- (2)
						      free_pgtables
						        unlink_file_vma
							hugetlb_free_pgd_range
						    remove_vma_list

In this scenario, it is possible for Process A to share page tables with
Process B that is trying to tear them down.  The i_mmap_mutex on its own
does not prevent Process A walking Process B's page tables.  At (1) above,
the page tables are not shared yet so it unmaps the PMDs.  Process A sets
up page table sharing and at (2) faults a new entry.  Process B then trips
up on it in free_pgtables.

This patch fixes the problem by adding a new function
__unmap_hugepage_range_final that is only called when the VMA is about to
be destroyed.  This function clears VM_MAYSHARE during
unmap_hugepage_range() under the i_mmap_mutex.  This makes the VMA
ineligible for sharing and avoids the race.  Superficially this looks like
it would then be vunerable to truncate and madvise issues but hugetlbfs
has its own truncate handlers so does not use unmap_mapping_range() and
does not support madvise(DONTNEED).

This should be treated as a -stable candidate if it is merged.

Test program is as follows. The test case was mostly written by Michal
Hocko with a few minor changes to reproduce this bug.

==== CUT HERE ====

static size_t huge_page_size = (2UL &lt;&lt; 20);
static size_t nr_huge_page_A = 512;
static size_t nr_huge_page_B = 5632;

unsigned int get_random(unsigned int max)
{
	struct timeval tv;

	gettimeofday(&amp;tv, NULL);
	srandom(tv.tv_usec);
	return random() % max;
}

static void play(void *addr, size_t size)
{
	unsigned char *start = addr,
		      *end = start + size,
		      *a;
	start += get_random(size/2);

	/* we could itterate on huge pages but let's give it more time. */
	for (a = start; a &lt; end; a += 4096)
		*a = 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	key_t key = IPC_PRIVATE;
	size_t sizeA = nr_huge_page_A * huge_page_size;
	size_t sizeB = nr_huge_page_B * huge_page_size;
	int shmidA, shmidB;
	void *addrA = NULL, *addrB = NULL;
	int nr_children = 300, n = 0;

	if ((shmidA = shmget(key, sizeA, IPC_CREAT|SHM_HUGETLB|0660)) == -1) {
		perror("shmget:");
		return 1;
	}

	if ((addrA = shmat(shmidA, addrA, SHM_R|SHM_W)) == (void *)-1UL) {
		perror("shmat");
		return 1;
	}
	if ((shmidB = shmget(key, sizeB, IPC_CREAT|SHM_HUGETLB|0660)) == -1) {
		perror("shmget:");
		return 1;
	}

	if ((addrB = shmat(shmidB, addrB, SHM_R|SHM_W)) == (void *)-1UL) {
		perror("shmat");
		return 1;
	}

fork_child:
	switch(fork()) {
		case 0:
			switch (n%3) {
			case 0:
				play(addrA, sizeA);
				break;
			case 1:
				play(addrB, sizeB);
				break;
			case 2:
				break;
			}
			break;
		case -1:
			perror("fork:");
			break;
		default:
			if (++n &lt; nr_children)
				goto fork_child;
			play(addrA, sizeA);
			break;
	}
	shmdt(addrA);
	shmdt(addrB);
	do {
		wait(NULL);
	} while (--n &gt; 0);
	shmctl(shmidA, IPC_RMID, NULL);
	shmctl(shmidB, IPC_RMID, NULL);
	return 0;
}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: name the declaration's args, fix CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n build]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop the mmu_gather * parameters]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:24:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-05T14:35:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7f5d5266f8a1f7f54707c15e028f220d329726f4'/>
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commit c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9 upstream.

Create a new function, get_random_bytes_arch() which will use the
architecture-specific hardware random number generator if it is
present.  Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it
is avaiable.

The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if
it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware
manufacturer to have not put in a back door.  (For example, an
increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.)

It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US
Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise
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commit c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9 upstream.

Create a new function, get_random_bytes_arch() which will use the
architecture-specific hardware random number generator if it is
present.  Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it
is avaiable.

The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if
it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware
manufacturer to have not put in a back door.  (For example, an
increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.)

It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US
Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: create add_device_randomness() interface</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:24:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-04T15:16:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=369e589b542f8ef0d56a95350997819d1b2222fd'/>
<id>369e589b542f8ef0d56a95350997819d1b2222fd</id>
<content type='text'>
commit a2080a67abe9e314f9e9c2cc3a4a176e8a8f8793 upstream.

Add a new interface, add_device_randomness() for adding data to the
random pool that is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly
even per boot).  This would be things like MAC addresses or serial
numbers, or the read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual
entropy to the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values
for devices that might otherwise be identical and have very little
entropy available to them (particularly common in the embedded world).

[ Modified by tytso to mix in a timestamp, since there may be some
  variability caused by the time needed to detect/configure the hardware
  in question. ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a2080a67abe9e314f9e9c2cc3a4a176e8a8f8793 upstream.

Add a new interface, add_device_randomness() for adding data to the
random pool that is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly
even per boot).  This would be things like MAC addresses or serial
numbers, or the read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual
entropy to the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values
for devices that might otherwise be identical and have very little
entropy available to them (particularly common in the embedded world).

[ Modified by tytso to mix in a timestamp, since there may be some
  variability caused by the time needed to detect/configure the hardware
  in question. ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' do something sane</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:24:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-02T11:52:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7069678424c5a5ab11938a274e2c03b1dd0b3302'/>
<id>7069678424c5a5ab11938a274e2c03b1dd0b3302</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 775f4b297b780601e61787b766f306ed3e1d23eb upstream.

We've been moving away from add_interrupt_randomness() for various
reasons: it's too expensive to do on every interrupt, and flooding the
CPU with interrupts could theoretically cause bogus floods of entropy
from a somewhat externally controllable source.

This solves both problems by limiting the actual randomness addition
to just once a second or after 64 interrupts, whicever comes first.
During that time, the interrupt cycle data is buffered up in a per-cpu
pool.  Also, we make sure the the nonblocking pool used by urandom is
initialized before we start feeding the normal input pool.  This
assures that /dev/urandom is returning unpredictable data as soon as
possible.

(Based on an original patch by Linus, but significantly modified by
tytso.)

Tested-by: Eric Wustrow &lt;ewust@umich.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Eric Wustrow &lt;ewust@umich.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Nadia Heninger &lt;nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Zakir Durumeric &lt;zakir@umich.edu&gt;
Reported-by: J. Alex Halderman &lt;jhalderm@umich.edu&gt;.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
commit 775f4b297b780601e61787b766f306ed3e1d23eb upstream.

We've been moving away from add_interrupt_randomness() for various
reasons: it's too expensive to do on every interrupt, and flooding the
CPU with interrupts could theoretically cause bogus floods of entropy
from a somewhat externally controllable source.

This solves both problems by limiting the actual randomness addition
to just once a second or after 64 interrupts, whicever comes first.
During that time, the interrupt cycle data is buffered up in a per-cpu
pool.  Also, we make sure the the nonblocking pool used by urandom is
initialized before we start feeding the normal input pool.  This
assures that /dev/urandom is returning unpredictable data as soon as
possible.

(Based on an original patch by Linus, but significantly modified by
tytso.)

Tested-by: Eric Wustrow &lt;ewust@umich.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Eric Wustrow &lt;ewust@umich.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Nadia Heninger &lt;nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Zakir Durumeric &lt;zakir@umich.edu&gt;
Reported-by: J. Alex Halderman &lt;jhalderm@umich.edu&gt;.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix race in task_group()</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:11:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-22T11:36:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b75bfc42974aaf089ae7eae5d3c6bf362f57ee93'/>
<id>b75bfc42974aaf089ae7eae5d3c6bf362f57ee93</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 8323f26ce3425460769605a6aece7a174edaa7d1 upstream

Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;

(backported to previous file names and layout)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8323f26ce3425460769605a6aece7a174edaa7d1 upstream

Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;

(backported to previous file names and layout)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add blk_queue_dead()</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T13:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-13T23:33:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=68e9e9fee2bbec4853a993e98b0df8479292f572'/>
<id>68e9e9fee2bbec4853a993e98b0df8479292f572</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 34f6055c80285e4efb3f602a9119db75239744dc upstream.

There are a number of QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD tests.  Add blk_queue_dead()
macro and use it.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
commit 34f6055c80285e4efb3f602a9119db75239744dc upstream.

There are a number of QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD tests.  Add blk_queue_dead()
macro and use it.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier()</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T13:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-17T19:39:26+00:00</published>
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commit 6575820221f7a4dd6eadecf7bf83cdd154335eda upstream.

Currently, all workqueue cpu hotplug operations run off
CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE which is higher than normal notifiers.  This is to
ensure that workqueue is up and running while bringing up a CPU before
other notifiers try to use workqueue on the CPU.

Per-cpu workqueues are supposed to remain working and bound to the CPU
for normal CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers.  This holds mostly true even
with workqueue offlining running with higher priority because
workqueue CPU_DOWN_PREPARE only creates a bound trustee thread which
runs the per-cpu workqueue without concurrency management without
explicitly detaching the existing workers.

However, if the trustee needs to create new workers, it creates
unbound workers which may wander off to other CPUs while
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers are in progress.  Furthermore, if the CPU
down is cancelled, the per-CPU workqueue may end up with workers which
aren't bound to the CPU.

While reliably reproducible with a convoluted artificial test-case
involving scheduling and flushing CPU burning work items from CPU down
notifiers, this isn't very likely to happen in the wild, and, even
when it happens, the effects are likely to be hidden by the following
successful CPU down.

Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high
priority for up operations and low priority for down operations.

Workqueue cpu hotplug operations will soon go through further cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 6575820221f7a4dd6eadecf7bf83cdd154335eda upstream.

Currently, all workqueue cpu hotplug operations run off
CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE which is higher than normal notifiers.  This is to
ensure that workqueue is up and running while bringing up a CPU before
other notifiers try to use workqueue on the CPU.

Per-cpu workqueues are supposed to remain working and bound to the CPU
for normal CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers.  This holds mostly true even
with workqueue offlining running with higher priority because
workqueue CPU_DOWN_PREPARE only creates a bound trustee thread which
runs the per-cpu workqueue without concurrency management without
explicitly detaching the existing workers.

However, if the trustee needs to create new workers, it creates
unbound workers which may wander off to other CPUs while
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers are in progress.  Furthermore, if the CPU
down is cancelled, the per-CPU workqueue may end up with workers which
aren't bound to the CPU.

While reliably reproducible with a convoluted artificial test-case
involving scheduling and flushing CPU burning work items from CPU down
notifiers, this isn't very likely to happen in the wild, and, even
when it happens, the effects are likely to be hidden by the following
successful CPU down.

Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high
priority for up operations and low priority for down operations.

Workqueue cpu hotplug operations will soon go through further cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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