- This patch fixes an Oops at sys_tas() in case CONFIG_SMP && CONFIG_PREEMPT.
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address XXXXXXXX
It is because a page fault happens at the spin_locked region in sys_tas()
and in_atomic() checks preempt_count, but spin_lock() already counts up
the preemt_count.
arch/mm/fault.c:
137 /*
138 * If we're in an interrupt or have no user context or are runni
ng in an
139 * atomic region then we must not take the fault..
140 */
141 if (in_atomic() || !mm)
142 goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
- sys_tas() is used for user-level mutual exclusion for the m32r,
which is prepared to implement a linuxthreads library.
The above problem may be happened in a program, which uses
pthread_mutex_lock(), calls sys_tas().
The current m32r instruction set has no user-level locking
functions for mutual exclusion.
# I hope it will be fixed in the future...
- This patch fixes the problem by using _raw_spin_lock() instead of
spin_lock(). spin_lock() increments up preemt_count, on the contrary,
_raw_sping_lock() does not.
# I think this fix is just a temporary work around, and
# it is preferable to be rewrite to make it simpler by using
# asm() function or something...
* arch/m32r/kernel/sys_m32r.c:
- Fix sys_tas() for CONFIG_SMP && CONFIG_PREEMPT.