linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: secondary CPUs signal to master before setting active and online (fixes kernel BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!)

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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:08:57 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	yuyang.du@...el.com, lkp@...org,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Benjamin Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale.com>,
	subbaram@...eaurora.org,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Slava Pestov <sp@...era.io>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, mpe@...erman.id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: secondary CPUs signal to master before setting
 active and online (fixes kernel BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!)

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> wrote:
> > Hi Ingo,
> >
> >> At that point I thought the previous task_cpu() was somewhat ingrained
> >> in the scheduler and came up with the patch. If not, we could go on a
> >> hunt to see what else needs fixing.
> >
> > I had another look. The scheduled does indeed make assumptions about the
> > previous task_cpu, but we have a hammer to fix it up called
> > select_fallback_rq.
> >
> > I annotated select_fallback_rq, and did hit a case where the CPU was
> > not active. ppc64 patch below.
> 
> Anton, I'll assume I will get this through the usual powerpc pull requests?
> 
> > I think x86 have a similar (although harder to hit) issue.

Indeed way harder to hit:

CPU 0				CPU 1

    				set_cpu_online(1, true) {
while (!cpu_online(cpu1))	   cpumask_set_cpu(1, to_cpumask(cpu_online_bits));
      relax();

wakeup_thread_on_cpu1();
				   cpumask_set_cpu(1, to_cpumask(cpu_active_bits));

On bare metal probably impossible, but on virt it should be
observable. Fix is simple.

Thanks,

	tglx

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 668d8f2a8781..534f3384f03f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ static void notrace start_secondary(void *unused)
 	lock_vector_lock();
 	set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), true);
 	unlock_vector_lock();
-	per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;
 	x86_platform.nmi_init();
 
 	/* enable local interrupts */
@@ -234,6 +233,7 @@ static void notrace start_secondary(void *unused)
 	x86_cpuinit.setup_percpu_clockev();
 
 	wmb();
+	per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;
 	cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_ONLINE);
 }
 
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ int native_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
 	check_tsc_sync_source(cpu);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
-	while (!cpu_online(cpu)) {
+	while (per_cpu(cpu_state,cpu) != CPU_ONLINE) {
 		cpu_relax();
 		touch_nmi_watchdog();
 	}


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