perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support

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Borislav Petkov reported a lockdep splat warning about kzalloc()
done in an IPI (hardirq) handler.

This is a real bug, do not call kzalloc() in a smp_call_function_single()
handler because it can schedule and crash.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <eranian@google.com>
Cc: <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130421180627.GA21049@jshin-Toonie
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Jacob Shin 2013-04-21 13:06:27 -05:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c

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