linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/xen: fix warning when running with nosmt mitigations

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Date:   Thu,  5 Nov 2020 19:35:29 -0500
From:   Brian Masney <bmasney@...hat.com>
To:     boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, jgross@...e.com, sstabellini@...nel.org
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org,
        hpa@...or.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dustymabe@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] x86/xen: fix warning when running with nosmt mitigations

When booting a hyperthreaded system with the kernel parameter
'mitigations=auto,nosmt', the following warning occurs:

    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:1112 unbind_from_irqhandler+0x4e/0x60
    ...
    Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.2.amazon 08/24/2006
    ...
    Call Trace:
     xen_uninit_lock_cpu+0x28/0x62
     xen_hvm_cpu_die+0x21/0x30
     takedown_cpu+0x9c/0xe0
     ? trace_suspend_resume+0x60/0x60
     cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x9a/0x530
     _cpu_up+0x11a/0x130
     cpu_up+0x7e/0xc0
     bringup_nonboot_cpus+0x48/0x50
     smp_init+0x26/0x79
     kernel_init_freeable+0xea/0x229
     ? rest_init+0xaa/0xaa
     kernel_init+0xa/0x106
     ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

The secondary CPUs are not activated with the nosmt mitigations and only
the primary thread on each CPU core is used. In this situation,
xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus(), and more importantly xen_init_lock_cpu(), is
not called, so the lock_kicker_irq is not initialized for the secondary
CPUs. Let's fix this by exiting early in xen_uninit_lock_cpu() if the
irq is not set to avoid the warning from above for each secondary CPU.

Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
index 799f4eba0a62..4a052459a08e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
@@ -93,9 +93,24 @@ void xen_init_lock_cpu(int cpu)
 
 void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
 {
+	int irq;
+
 	if (!xen_pvspin)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * When booting the kernel with 'mitigations=auto,nosmt', the secondary
+	 * CPUs are not activated and only the primary thread on each CPU core
+	 * is used. In this situation, xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus(), and more
+	 * importantly xen_init_lock_cpu(), is not called, so the
+	 * lock_kicker_irq is not initialized for the secondary CPUs. Let's
+	 * exit early if the irq is not set to avoid a warning in the console
+	 * log.
+	 */
+	irq = per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu);
+	if (irq == -1)
+		return;
+
 	unbind_from_irqhandler(per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu), NULL);
 	per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu) = -1;
 	kfree(per_cpu(irq_name, cpu));
-- 
2.26.2