linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 5/8] tracing/timerlat: Fix duplicated kthread creation due to CPU online/offline

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Message-ID: <20241004135723.800438615@goodmis.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:57:00 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 stable@...r.kernel.org,
 Wei Li <liwei391@...wei.com>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 5/8] tracing/timerlat: Fix duplicated kthread creation due to CPU
 online/offline

From: Wei Li <liwei391@...wei.com>

osnoise_hotplug_workfn() is the asynchronous online callback for
"trace/osnoise:online". It may be congested when a CPU goes online and
offline repeatedly and is invoked for multiple times after a certain
online.

This will lead to kthread leak and timer corruption. Add a check
in start_kthread() to prevent this situation.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240924094515.3561410-2-liwei391@huawei.com
Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index 1439064f65d6..d1a539913a5f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -2007,6 +2007,10 @@ static int start_kthread(unsigned int cpu)
 	void *main = osnoise_main;
 	char comm[24];
 
+	/* Do not start a new thread if it is already running */
+	if (per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (timerlat_enabled()) {
 		snprintf(comm, 24, "timerlat/%d", cpu);
 		main = timerlat_main;
@@ -2061,11 +2065,10 @@ static int start_per_cpu_kthreads(void)
 		if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, &kthread_cpumask)) {
 			struct task_struct *kthread;
 
-			kthread = per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread;
+			kthread = xchg_relaxed(&(per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread), NULL);
 			if (!WARN_ON(!kthread))
 				kthread_stop(kthread);
 		}
-		per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread = NULL;
 	}
 
 	for_each_cpu(cpu, current_mask) {
-- 
2.45.2