>From 2c06e795162cb306c9707ec51d3e1deadb37f573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Zhou <denn...@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:17:09 -0700

Commit 30a5b5367ef9 ("percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via
debugfs") introduces percpu memory statistics. pcpu_stats_chunk_alloc
takes the spin lock and disables/enables irqs on creation of a chunk. Irqs
are not enabled when the first chunk is initialized and thus kernels are
failing to boot with kernel debugging enabled. Fixed by changing _irq to
_irqsave and _irqrestore.

Fixes: 30a5b5367ef9 ("percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via 
debugfs")
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <denn...@fb.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Levin <alexander.le...@verizon.com>
---

Hi Sasha,

The root cause was from 0003 of that series where I prematurely enabled
irqs and the problem is addresssed here. I am able to boot with debug
options enabled.

Thanks,
Dennis

 mm/percpu-internal.h | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu-internal.h b/mm/percpu-internal.h
index d030fce..cd2442e 100644
--- a/mm/percpu-internal.h
+++ b/mm/percpu-internal.h
@@ -116,13 +116,14 @@ static inline void pcpu_stats_area_dealloc(struct 
pcpu_chunk *chunk)
  */
 static inline void pcpu_stats_chunk_alloc(void)
 {
-       spin_lock_irq(&pcpu_lock);
+       unsigned long flags;
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
 
        pcpu_stats.nr_chunks++;
        pcpu_stats.nr_max_chunks =
                max(pcpu_stats.nr_max_chunks, pcpu_stats.nr_chunks);
 
-       spin_unlock_irq(&pcpu_lock);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -130,11 +131,12 @@ static inline void pcpu_stats_chunk_alloc(void)
  */
 static inline void pcpu_stats_chunk_dealloc(void)
 {
-       spin_lock_irq(&pcpu_lock);
+       unsigned long flags;
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
 
        pcpu_stats.nr_chunks--;
 
-       spin_unlock_irq(&pcpu_lock);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);
 }
 
 #else
-- 
2.9.3

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