* [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:
> ACPI uses NR_CPUS in various loops and in some it accesses per cpu
> data of processors that are not present(!) and that will never be present.
> The pointers to per cpu data are typically not initialized for processors
> that are not present. So we seem to be reading something here from offset 0
> in memory.
>
> Make ACPI use nr_cpu_ids instead. That stops at the end of the possible
> processors.
>
> Convert one loop to NR_CPUS to use the cpu_possible map instead.
>
I'm just wondering how broken this is. Is there any assumption that
there is no holes in the online cpu map in this code ?
We can very well have :
0 off
1 on
2 on
3 on
...
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 14 +++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c 2007-11-19 15:45:05.041140492 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c 2007-11-19 15:48:22.513639920 -0800
> @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static int get_cpu_id(acpi_handle handle
> if (apic_id == -1)
> return apic_id;
>
> - for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; ++i) {
> + for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> if (cpu_physical_id(i) == apic_id)
> return i;
> }
> @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_star
> return 0;
> }
>
> - BUG_ON((pr->id >= NR_CPUS) || (pr->id < 0));
> + BUG_ON((pr->id >= nr_cpu_ids) || (pr->id < 0));
>
> /*
> * Buggy BIOS check
> @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_remove(struct
>
> pr = acpi_driver_data(device);
>
> - if (pr->id >= NR_CPUS) {
> + if (pr->id >= nr_cpu_ids) {
> kfree(pr);
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ int acpi_processor_device_add(acpi_handl
> if (!pr)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> - if ((pr->id >= 0) && (pr->id < NR_CPUS)) {
> + if ((pr->id >= 0) && (pr->id < nr_cpu_ids)) {
> kobject_uevent(&(*device)->dev.kobj, KOBJ_ONLINE);
> }
> return 0;
> @@ -880,13 +880,13 @@ acpi_processor_hotplug_notify(acpi_handl
> break;
> }
>
> - if (pr->id >= 0 && (pr->id < NR_CPUS)) {
> + if (pr->id >= 0 && (pr->id < nr_cpu_ids)) {
> kobject_uevent(&device->dev.kobj, KOBJ_OFFLINE);
> break;
> }
>
> result = acpi_processor_start(device);
> - if ((!result) && ((pr->id >= 0) && (pr->id < NR_CPUS))) {
> + if ((!result) && ((pr->id >= 0) && (pr->id < nr_cpu_ids))) {
> kobject_uevent(&device->dev.kobj, KOBJ_ONLINE);
> } else {
> printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Device [%s] failed to start\n",
> @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ acpi_processor_hotplug_notify(acpi_handl
> return;
> }
>
> - if ((pr->id < NR_CPUS) && (cpu_present(pr->id)))
> + if ((pr->id < nr_cpu_ids) && (cpu_present(pr->id)))
> kobject_uevent(&device->dev.kobj, KOBJ_OFFLINE);
> break;
> default:
>
> --
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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