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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T04:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T04:20:46+00:00</published>
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* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
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* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal</title>
<updated>2011-10-26T02:40:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Schmidt</name>
<email>mschmidt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-09T22:03:37+00:00</published>
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The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (neatened implementations)
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The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (neatened implementations)
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier</title>
<updated>2011-10-25T18:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-12T23:17:54+00:00</published>
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Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
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Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier</title>
<updated>2011-09-30T02:21:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wangyanqing</name>
<email>udknight@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-29T07:09:40+00:00</published>
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Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit d5767c53535a ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup()</title>
<updated>2011-09-28T17:23:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-28T17:23:44+00:00</published>
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Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec831 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec831 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: carefully handle loglevel option on kernel cmdline.</title>
<updated>2011-09-21T20:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Sverdlin</name>
<email>alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-21T07:51:40+00:00</published>
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When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Boot up with usermodehelper disabled</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T08:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-04T08:03:29+00:00</published>
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The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.

Reported-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@googlemail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@misterjones.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.

Reported-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@googlemail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@misterjones.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tmpfs: miscellaneous trivial cleanups</title>
<updated>2011-08-04T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T23:21:21+00:00</published>
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While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming.  Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".

And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming.  Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".

And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts</title>
<updated>2011-06-17T08:17:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takao Indoh</name>
<email>indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-29T16:35:04+00:00</published>
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There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.

To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.

The details of the crash are:

 (1) 2nd kernel boots up

 (2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
     in start_kernel().

 (3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
     is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
     generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
     dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
     &amp;q-&gt;list.next.

Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh &lt;indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.

To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.

The details of the crash are:

 (1) 2nd kernel boots up

 (2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
     in start_kernel().

 (3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
     is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
     generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
     dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
     &amp;q-&gt;list.next.

Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh &lt;indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()</title>
<updated>2011-05-29T18:32:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
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Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [&lt;c11ae035&gt;] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;c11addda&gt;] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [&lt;c102396b&gt;] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [&lt;c1022705&gt;] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [&lt;c10227ba&gt;] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [&lt;c103a3fc&gt;] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [&lt;c103a7a3&gt;] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert
mm-&gt;cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [&lt;c11ae035&gt;] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;c11addda&gt;] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [&lt;c102396b&gt;] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [&lt;c1022705&gt;] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [&lt;c10227ba&gt;] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [&lt;c103a3fc&gt;] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [&lt;c103a7a3&gt;] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert
mm-&gt;cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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