linux-kernel - Re: kcompactd hotplug fail

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Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:30:24 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, anna-maria@...utronix.de,
        vbabka@...e.cz, mgorman@...hsingularity.net, mhocko@...e.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kcompactd hotplug fail

On Thu, Sep 10 2020 at 16:10, peterz wrote:
> While playing with hotplug, I ran into the below:
>
> [ 2305.676384] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 2305.681543] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 15 at kernel/sched/core.c:1924 __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x1bd/0x230
> [ 2305.821454]  kcompactd_cpu_online+0xa1/0xb0
>
> Given:
>
> static int __init kcompactd_init(void)
> {
> 	...
> 	ret = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
> 					"mm/compaction:online",
> 					kcompactd_cpu_online, NULL);
>
> and:
>
>
> 	CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
> 	CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN_END		= CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN + 30,
> 	CPUHP_AP_X86_HPET_ONLINE,
> 	CPUHP_AP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE,
> 	CPUHP_AP_ACTIVE,
>
> this is somewhat expected behaviour.
>
> It tries and set the compaction affinity to include the newly onlined
> CPU before it is marked active and that's a no-no.
>
> Ideally the kcompactd notifier is ran after AP_ACTIVE, not before.

Indeed. So we need steps post ACTIVE which we did not want to have in
the first place :)

Thanks,

        tglx