linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/hyperv: Initialize clockevents after LAPIC is initialized

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Date:   Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:31:36 -0800
From:   Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:     wei.liu@...nel.org, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, hpa@...or.com,
        kys@...rosoft.com, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org, mikelley@...rosoft.com,
        vkuznets@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de
Cc:     ohering@...e.com, jwiesner@...e.com, marcelo.cerri@...onical.com,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/hyperv: Initialize clockevents after LAPIC is initialized

With commit 4df4cb9e99f8, the Hyper-V direct-mode STIMER is actually
initialized before LAPIC is initialized: see

  apic_intr_mode_init()

    x86_platform.apic_post_init()
      hyperv_init()
        hv_stimer_alloc()

    apic_bsp_setup()
      setup_local_APIC()

setup_local_APIC() temporarily disables LAPIC, initializes it and
re-eanble it.  The direct-mode STIMER depends on LAPIC, and when it's
registered, it can be programmed immediately and the timer can fire
very soon:

  hv_stimer_init
    clockevents_config_and_register
      clockevents_register_device
        tick_check_new_device
          tick_setup_device
            tick_setup_periodic(), tick_setup_oneshot()
              clockevents_program_event

When the timer fires in the hypervisor, if the LAPIC is in the
disabled state, new versions of Hyper-V ignore the event and don't inject
the timer interrupt into the VM, and hence the VM hangs when it boots.

Note: when the VM starts/reboots, the LAPIC is pre-enabled by the
firmware, so the window of LAPIC being temporarily disabled is pretty
small, and the issue can only happen once out of 100~200 reboots for
a 40-vCPU VM on one dev host, and on another host the issue doesn't
reproduce after 2000 reboots.

The issue is more noticeable for kdump/kexec, because the LAPIC is
disabled by the first kernel, and stays disabled until the kdump/kexec
kernel enables it. This is especially an issue to a Generation-2 VM
(for which Hyper-V doesn't emulate the PIT timer) when CONFIG_HZ=1000
(rather than CONFIG_HZ=250) is used.

Fix the issue by moving hv_stimer_alloc() to a later place where the
LAPIC timer is initialized.

Fixes: 4df4cb9e99f8 ("x86/hyperv: Initialize clockevents earlier in CPU onlining")
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
---
 arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
index 4638a52d8eae..6375967a8244 100644
--- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
@@ -315,6 +315,25 @@ static struct syscore_ops hv_syscore_ops = {
 	.resume		= hv_resume,
 };
 
+static void (* __initdata old_setup_percpu_clockev)(void);
+
+static void __init hv_stimer_setup_percpu_clockev(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Ignore any errors in setting up stimer clockevents
+	 * as we can run with the LAPIC timer as a fallback.
+	 */
+	(void)hv_stimer_alloc();
+
+	/*
+	 * Still register the LAPIC timer, because the direct-mode STIMER is
+	 * not supported by old versions of Hyper-V. This also allows users
+	 * to switch to LAPIC timer via /sys, if they want to.
+	 */
+	if (old_setup_percpu_clockev)
+		old_setup_percpu_clockev();
+}
+
 /*
  * This function is to be invoked early in the boot sequence after the
  * hypervisor has been detected.
@@ -393,10 +412,14 @@ void __init hyperv_init(void)
 	wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL, hypercall_msr.as_uint64);
 
 	/*
-	 * Ignore any errors in setting up stimer clockevents
-	 * as we can run with the LAPIC timer as a fallback.
+	 * hyperv_init() is called before LAPIC is initialized: see
+	 * apic_intr_mode_init() -> x86_platform.apic_post_init() and
+	 * apic_bsp_setup() -> setup_local_APIC(). The direct-mode STIMER
+	 * depends on LAPIC, so hv_stimer_alloc() should be called from
+	 * x86_init.timers.setup_percpu_clockev.
 	 */
-	(void)hv_stimer_alloc();
+	old_setup_percpu_clockev = x86_init.timers.setup_percpu_clockev;
+	x86_init.timers.setup_percpu_clockev = hv_stimer_setup_percpu_clockev;
 
 	hv_apic_init();
 
-- 
2.19.1