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Nathan Fontenot 81b6132492 powerpc/pseries: Perform full re-add of CPU for topology update post-migration
On pseries systems, performing a partition migration can result in
altering the nodes a CPU is assigned to on the destination system. For
exampl, pre-migration on the source system CPUs are in node 1 and 3,
post-migration on the destination system CPUs are in nodes 2 and 3.

Handling the node change for a CPU can cause corruption in the slab
cache if we hit a timing where a CPUs node is changed while cache_reap()
is invoked. The corruption occurs because the slab cache code appears
to rely on the CPU and slab cache pages being on the same node.

The current dynamic updating of a CPUs node done in arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
does not prevent us from hitting this scenario.

Changing the device tree property update notification handler that
recognizes an affinity change for a CPU to do a full DLPAR remove and
add of the CPU instead of dynamically changing its node resolves this
issue.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael W. Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Michael W. Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-01-30 23:28:56 +11:00
arch powerpc/pseries: Perform full re-add of CPU for topology update post-migration 2019-01-30 23:28:56 +11:00
block block: fix kerneldoc comment for blk_attempt_plug_merge() 2019-01-09 15:29:08 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
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include ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
init jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel kernel/sys.c: Clarify that UNAME26 does not generate unique versions anymore 2019-01-14 10:38:03 +12:00
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LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm/mmu_notifier: mm/rmap.c: Fix a mmu_notifier range bug in try_to_unmap_one 2019-01-10 02:58:21 -08:00
net libceph: allow setting abort_on_full for rbd 2019-01-07 22:47:48 +01:00
samples samples/seccomp: Fix 32-bit build 2019-01-08 07:45:01 +01:00
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tools selftests/powerpc: New TM signal self test 2019-01-15 11:17:09 +11:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 05:49:35 +12:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 10:41:12 +12:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.