Hello,
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 05:17:39AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Qemu tests with unicore32 show memory management code entering an endless
> loop in pcpu_alloc(). Bisect points to commit a93ace487a33 ("percpu: move
> region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()"). Code analysis
> identifies the following relevant changes.
>
> - rs = page_start;
> - pcpu_next_pop(chunk, &rs, &re, page_end);
> -
> - if (rs != page_start || re != page_end) {
> + pcpu_for_each_unpop_region(chunk, rs, re, page_start, page_end) {
>
> For unicore32, values were page_start==0, page_end==1, rs==0, re==1.
> This worked fine with the old code. With the new code, however, the loop
> is always entered. Debugging information added into the loop shows
> an endless repetition of
>
> in loop chunk c5c53100 populated 0xff rs 1 re 2 page start 0 page end 1
> in loop chunk c5c53100 populated 0xff rs 1 re 2 page start 0 page end 1
> in loop chunk c5c53100 populated 0xff rs 1 re 2 page start 0 page end 1
> in loop chunk c5c53100 populated 0xff rs 1 re 2 page start 0 page end 1
That's a bug in the find bit functions in unicore32. If @offset >=
@end, it should return @end, not @offset.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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