linux-kernel - [tip: sched/core] cpu/hotplug, stop_machine: Fix stop

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Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:39:52 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: sched/core] cpu/hotplug, stop_machine: Fix stop_machine vs
 hotplug order

The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     45178ac0cea853fe0e405bf11e101bdebea57b15
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/45178ac0cea853fe0e405bf11e101bdebea57b15
Author:        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:34:54 +01:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:32:50 +01:00

cpu/hotplug, stop_machine: Fix stop_machine vs hotplug order

Paul reported a very sporadic, rcutorture induced, workqueue failure.
When the planets align, the workqueue rescuer's self-migrate fails and
then triggers a WARN for running a work on the wrong CPU.

Tejun then figured that set_cpus_allowed_ptr()'s stop_one_cpu() call
could be ignored! When stopper->enabled is false, stop_machine will
insta complete the work, without actually doing the work. Worse, it
will not WARN about this (we really should fix this).

It turns out there is a small window where a freshly online'ed CPU is
marked 'online' but doesn't yet have the stopper task running:

	BP				AP

	bringup_cpu()
	  __cpu_up(cpu, idle)	 -->	start_secondary()
					...
					cpu_startup_entry()
	  bringup_wait_for_ap()
	    wait_for_ap_thread() <--	  cpuhp_online_idle()
					  while (1)
					    do_idle()

					... available to run kthreads ...

	    stop_machine_unpark()
	      stopper->enable = true;

Close this by moving the stop_machine_unpark() into
cpuhp_online_idle(), such that the stopper thread is ready before we
start the idle loop and schedule.

Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Debugged-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Tested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/cpu.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index a59cc98..e7f7967 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -525,8 +525,7 @@ static int bringup_wait_for_ap(unsigned int cpu)
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((!cpu_online(cpu))))
 		return -ECANCELED;
 
-	/* Unpark the stopper thread and the hotplug thread of the target cpu */
-	stop_machine_unpark(cpu);
+	/* Unpark the hotplug thread of the target cpu */
 	kthread_unpark(st->thread);
 
 	/*
@@ -1089,8 +1088,8 @@ void notify_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu)
 
 /*
  * Called from the idle task. Wake up the controlling task which brings the
- * stopper and the hotplug thread of the upcoming CPU up and then delegates
- * the rest of the online bringup to the hotplug thread.
+ * hotplug thread of the upcoming CPU up and then delegates the rest of the
+ * online bringup to the hotplug thread.
  */
 void cpuhp_online_idle(enum cpuhp_state state)
 {
@@ -1100,6 +1099,12 @@ void cpuhp_online_idle(enum cpuhp_state state)
 	if (state != CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * Unpart the stopper thread before we start the idle loop (and start
+	 * scheduling); this ensures the stopper task is always available.
+	 */
+	stop_machine_unpark(smp_processor_id());
+
 	st->state = CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE;
 	complete_ap_thread(st, true);
 }