linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 10/12] x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel

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Date:   Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:55:08 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Usama Arif <usama.arif@...edance.com>, kim.phillips@....com,
        brgerst@...il.com
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        arjan@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, paulmck@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, mimoja@...oja.de, hewenliang4@...wei.com,
        thomas.lendacky@....com, seanjc@...gle.com, pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de,
        fam.zheng@...edance.com, punit.agrawal@...edance.com,
        simon.evans@...edance.com, liangma@...ngbit.com,
        "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 10/12] x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary
 CPUs in parallel

On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 10:54 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08 2023 at 17:13, Usama Arif wrote:
> >  
> > +/* Bringup step one: Send INIT/SIPI to the target AP */
> > +static int native_cpu_kick(unsigned int cpu)
> > +{
> > +       return do_cpu_up(cpu, idle_thread_get(cpu));
> 
> This idle_thread_get() is not sufficient. bringup_cpu() does:
> 
>         struct task_struct *idle = idle_thread_get(cpu);
> 
>         /*
>          * Reset stale stack state from the last time this CPU was online.
>          */
>         scs_task_reset(idle);
>         kasan_unpoison_task_stack(idle);
> 
> But with this new model neither the shadow stack gets reset nor the
> kasan unpoisoning happens _before_ the to be kicked CPU starts
> executing.
> 
> That needs a new function which does the get() and the above.

Ah, good catch. Those were added after we started on this journey :)

I think I'll do it with a 'bool unpoison' argument to
idle_thread_get(). Or just make it unconditional; they're idempotent
anyway and cheap enough? Kind of weird to be doing it from finish_cpu()
though, so I'll probably stick with the argument.


....*types*....

Erm, there are circumstances (!CONFIG_GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD) when
idle_thread_get() just unconditionally returns NULL.

At first glance, it doesn't look like scs_task_reset() copes with being
passed a NULL. Am I missing something?

 $ grep -c GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD `grep -l SMP arch/*/Kconfig`
arch/alpha/Kconfig:1
arch/arc/Kconfig:1
arch/arm64/Kconfig:1
arch/arm/Kconfig:1
arch/csky/Kconfig:1
arch/hexagon/Kconfig:1
arch/ia64/Kconfig:1
arch/loongarch/Kconfig:1
arch/mips/Kconfig:1
arch/openrisc/Kconfig:1
arch/parisc/Kconfig:1
arch/powerpc/Kconfig:1
arch/riscv/Kconfig:1
arch/s390/Kconfig:1
arch/sh/Kconfig:1
arch/sparc/Kconfig:1
arch/um/Kconfig:0
arch/x86/Kconfig:1
arch/xtensa/Kconfig:1

Maybe just nobody but UM cares?

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