linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: start stopper early

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Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2015 18:49:14 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: start stopper early

On 10/09, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

Peter, I tried to compromise you.

>  	case CPU_ONLINE:
> +		stop_machine_unpark(cpu);
>  		/*
>  		 * At this point a starting CPU has marked itself as online via
>  		 * set_cpu_online(). But it might not yet have marked itself
> @@ -5337,7 +5340,7 @@ static int sched_cpu_active(struct notifier_block *nfb,
>  		 * Thus, fall-through and help the starting CPU along.
>  		 */
>  	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
> -		set_cpu_active((long)hcpu, true);
> +		set_cpu_active(cpu, true);

On a second thought, we can't do this (and your initial change has
the same problem).

We can not wakeup it before set_cpu_active(). This can lead to the
same problem fixed by dd9d3843755da95f6 "sched: Fix cpu_active_mask/
cpu_online_mask race". The stopper thread can hit
BUG_ON(td->cpu != smp_processor_id()) in smpboot_thread_fn().

Easy to fix, CPU_ONLINE should do set_cpu_active() itself and not
fall through to CPU_DOWN_FAILED,

	case CPU_ONLINE:
		set_cpu_active(cpu, true);
		stop_machine_unpark(cpu);
		break;

But. This is another proof that stop_two_cpus() must not rely on
cpu_active().

Right?

Oleg.

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