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Paul Durrant a254d8f9a8 xen-netback: don't vfree() queues under spinlock
This leads to a BUG of the following form:

[  174.512861] switch: port 2(vif3.0) entered disabled state
[  174.522735] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
/home/build/linux-linus/mm/vmalloc.c:1441
[  174.523451] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 28, name: xenwatch
[  174.524131] CPU: 1 PID: 28 Comm: xenwatch Tainted: G        W
4.10.0upstream-11073-g4977ab6-dirty #1
[  174.524819] Hardware name: MSI MS-7680/H61M-P23 (MS-7680), BIOS V17.0
03/14/2011
[  174.525517] Call Trace:
[  174.526217]  show_stack+0x23/0x60
[  174.526899]  dump_stack+0x5b/0x88
[  174.527562]  ___might_sleep+0xde/0x130
[  174.528208]  __might_sleep+0x35/0xa0
[  174.528840]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x13/0x20
[  174.529463]  ? __wake_up+0x40/0x50
[  174.530089]  remove_vm_area+0x20/0x90
[  174.530724]  __vunmap+0x1d/0xc0
[  174.531346]  ? delete_object_full+0x13/0x20
[  174.531973]  vfree+0x40/0x80
[  174.532594]  set_backend_state+0x18a/0xa90
[  174.533221]  ? dwc_scan_descriptors+0x24d/0x430
[  174.533850]  ? kfree+0x5b/0xc0
[  174.534476]  ? xenbus_read+0x3d/0x50
[  174.535101]  ? xenbus_read+0x3d/0x50
[  174.535718]  ? xenbus_gather+0x31/0x90
[  174.536332]  ? ___might_sleep+0xf6/0x130
[  174.536945]  frontend_changed+0x6b/0xd0
[  174.537565]  xenbus_otherend_changed+0x7d/0x80
[  174.538185]  frontend_changed+0x12/0x20
[  174.538803]  xenwatch_thread+0x74/0x110
[  174.539417]  ? woken_wake_function+0x20/0x20
[  174.540049]  kthread+0xe5/0x120
[  174.540663]  ? xenbus_printf+0x50/0x50
[  174.541278]  ? __kthread_init_worker+0x40/0x40
[  174.541898]  ret_from_fork+0x21/0x2c
[  174.548635] switch: port 2(vif3.0) entered disabled state

This patch defers the vfree() until after the spinlock is released.

Reported-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-03 09:36:15 -08:00
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README

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.