Commit 84ffae55 authored Apr 07, 2011 by Anton Blanchard Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt Apr 18, 2011

powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early



We currently enable interrupts before the dispatch log for the boot
cpu is setup. If a timer interrupt comes in early enough we oops in
scan_dispatch_log:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000010

...

.scan_dispatch_log+0xb0/0x170
.account_system_vtime+0xa0/0x220
.irq_enter+0x88/0xc0
.do_IRQ+0x48/0x230

The patch below adds a check to scan_dispatch_log to ensure the
dispatch log has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

parent 127493d5

arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ static u64 scan_dispatch_log(u64 stop_tb)
		u64 stolen = 0;
		u64 dtb;

		if (!dtl)
		return 0;

		if (i == vpa->dtl_idx)
		return 0;
		while (i < vpa->dtl_idx) {