linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of cluster

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Date:   Tue, 07 Feb 2023 11:27:20 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Usama Arif <usama.arif@...edance.com>, arjan@...ux.intel.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of
 cluster_mask

On Tue, 2023-02-07 at 10:57 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > +       /*
> > +        * On post boot hotplug iterate over the present CPUs to handle the
> > +        * case of partial clusters as they might be presented by
> > +        * virtualization.
> > +        */
> > +       for_each_present_cpu(cpu_i) {
> 
> 
> So... if this CPU was *present* at boot time (and if any other CPU in
> this cluster was present), it will already have a cluster_mask.
> 
> Which means we get here in two cases: 
> 
>  • This CPU wasn't actually present (was just 'possible') at boot time.
>    (Is that actually a thing that happens?)
> 
>  • This CPU was present but no other CPU in this cluster was actually
>    brought up at boot time so the cluster_mask wasn't allocated.
> 
> The code looks right, I don't grok the comment about partial clusters
> and virtualization, and would have worded it something along the above
> lines?

As I get my head around that, I think the code needs to change too.
What if we *unplug* the only CPU in a cluster (present→possible), then
add a new one in the same cluster? The new one would get a new
cluster_mask. Which is kind of OK for now but then if we re-add the
original CPU it'd continue to use its old cluster_mask.

Now, that's kind of weird if it's physical CPUs because that cluster is
within a given chip, isn't it? But with virtualization maybe that's
something that could happen, and it doesn't hurt to be completely safe
by using for_each_possible_cpu() instead?

Now looks like this:


	/*
	 * On post boot hotplug for a CPU which was not present at boot time,
	 * iterate over all possible CPUs (even those which are not present
	 * any more) to find any existing cluster mask.
	 */
	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu_i) {


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