* [to-be-updated] lib-group_cpus-snapshot-cluster-masks-to-keep-grouping-hotplug-invariant.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-11-14 22:51 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-11-14 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, Vishal.Badole, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: lib/group_cpus: snapshot cluster masks to keep grouping hotplug invariant
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
lib-group_cpus-snapshot-cluster-masks-to-keep-grouping-hotplug-invariant.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
------------------------------------------------------
From: Vishal Badole <Vishal.Badole@amd.com>
Subject: lib/group_cpus: snapshot cluster masks to keep grouping hotplug invariant
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:15:13 +0530
group_cpus_evenly() builds the managed-IRQ affinity spread used by
multi-queue devices such as NVMe. That spread is meant to be a property
of the static CPU topology: it walks cpu_present_mask and then
cpu_possible_mask so every hardware queue owns a fixed set of CPUs,
including CPUs that are offline at the time. A driver depends on that
partition staying stable across re-computation - the CPUs a queue is given
at probe must still describe the same queue after the device is later
reset and its affinity recomputed.
On an AMD system that stability breaks across an s2idle cycle. CPUs 3-11
are offlined before suspend, leaving only CPUs 0-2 online. s2idle itself
does not offline secondary CPUs. The NVMe controller uses the
simple-suspend quirk, so resume fully re-initialises it and recomputes the
affinity spread while CPUs 3-11 remain offline. The system then hangs for
roughly two minutes and stays sluggish afterwards, the controller only
making progress through its command-timeout poll:
nvme nvme0: I/O tag 898 (3382) QID 9 timeout, completion polled
nvme nvme0: I/O tag 398 (618e) QID 11 timeout, completion polled
QID 9 and QID 11 are the queues whose CPUs were offline when the spread
was recomputed. "completion polled" means the commands did finish in
hardware, but their interrupts were never delivered to a CPU that was
watching the queue, so nothing reaped them until the timeout fired.
It happens because commit 89802ca36c96 ("lib/group_cpus: make group CPU
cluster aware") derives the cluster groups from
topology_cluster_cpumask(), which lists only the cluster siblings that are
online when it is called. The resulting partition therefore depends on
the transient online mask rather than on the topology alone. Recomputed
on resume while CPUs 3-11 remain offline, it no longer matches the
boot-time partition, and a queue is left with an affinity that does not
cover the CPU it is meant to serve once that CPU comes back online. The
dependence is on the online mask, not on any AMD-specific behaviour, so
the same stall is reproducible on Intel platforms as well.
Fix this by snapshotting cluster and SMT masks together under
cpus_read_trylock() when all present CPUs are online. Latch the first
capture attempt, permanently using CPU-order grouping if it fails, and
propagate later allocation errors instead of switching algorithms. This
keeps successful spreads stable across CPU offline/online cycles for an
unchanged group count, present/possible CPU sets and NUMA topology.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261110174513.461743-1-Vishal.Badole@amd.com
Fixes: 89802ca36c96 ("lib/group_cpus: make group CPU cluster aware")
Signed-off-by: Vishal Badole <Vishal.Badole@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@intel.com>
Cc: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Liang <dan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
lib/group_cpus.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/group_cpus.c~lib-group_cpus-snapshot-cluster-masks-to-keep-grouping-hotplug-invariant
+++ a/lib/group_cpus.c
@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include <linux/group_cpus.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+static cpumask_var_t *sibling_snapshot;
+
static void grp_spread_init_one(struct cpumask *irqmsk, struct cpumask *nmsk,
unsigned int cpus_per_grp)
{
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ static void grp_spread_init_one(struct c
cpus_per_grp--;
/* If the cpu has siblings, use them first */
- siblmsk = topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu);
+ siblmsk = sibling_snapshot ? sibling_snapshot[cpu] : cpumask_of(cpu);
for (sibl = -1; cpus_per_grp > 0; ) {
sibl = cpumask_next(sibl, siblmsk);
if (sibl >= nr_cpu_ids)
@@ -286,6 +289,84 @@ static void assign_cpus_to_groups(unsign
}
}
+/*
+ * Cluster and SMT sibling masks change when CPUs go offline. Snapshot both
+ * on the first spread if every present CPU is online. Latch the attempt even
+ * on failure, so later spreads cannot enable a different grouping algorithm.
+ *
+ * Without a snapshot, use CPU order without cluster or SMT preference.
+ * Successful spreads remain stable for the same group count, present/possible
+ * CPU sets and NUMA topology. The snapshot is not refreshed for CPU hot-add.
+ */
+static cpumask_var_t *cluster_snapshot;
+static bool cluster_snapshot_initialized;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(cluster_snapshot_lock);
+
+static void capture_cluster_snapshot(void)
+{
+ cpumask_var_t *snapshot, *siblings;
+ unsigned int cpu;
+
+ /* Pairs with the smp_store_release() below. */
+ if (smp_load_acquire(&cluster_snapshot_initialized))
+ return;
+
+ mutex_lock(&cluster_snapshot_lock);
+ if (cluster_snapshot_initialized)
+ goto out;
+
+ /* Only capture when all present CPUs are online. */
+ if (!data_race(cpumask_equal(cpu_present_mask, cpu_online_mask)))
+ goto done;
+
+ snapshot = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*snapshot), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!snapshot)
+ goto done;
+ siblings = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*siblings), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!siblings)
+ goto free_snapshot;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&snapshot[cpu], GFP_KERNEL) ||
+ !zalloc_cpumask_var(&siblings[cpu], GFP_KERNEL))
+ goto free_snapshot;
+
+ /* Trylock: a caller may hold a lock the hotplug writer needs. */
+ if (!cpus_read_trylock())
+ goto free_snapshot;
+
+ /* Recheck with CPU hotplug excluded before copying the masks. */
+ if (!data_race(cpumask_equal(cpu_present_mask, cpu_online_mask))) {
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+ goto free_snapshot;
+ }
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ cpumask_copy(snapshot[cpu], topology_cluster_cpumask(cpu));
+ cpumask_copy(siblings[cpu], topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu));
+ }
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+
+ cluster_snapshot = snapshot;
+ sibling_snapshot = siblings;
+ goto done;
+
+free_snapshot:
+ /* Unallocated entries are NULL, which free_cpumask_var() ignores. */
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ free_cpumask_var(snapshot[cpu]);
+ if (siblings)
+ free_cpumask_var(siblings[cpu]);
+ }
+ kfree(snapshot);
+ kfree(siblings);
+done:
+ /* Publish the capture outcome, including failure, before grouping. */
+ smp_store_release(&cluster_snapshot_initialized, true);
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&cluster_snapshot_lock);
+}
+
static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned int ncpus,
unsigned int ngroups,
struct cpumask *node_cpumask,
@@ -299,6 +380,9 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
const struct cpumask **clusters;
struct node_groups *cluster_groups;
+ if (!cluster_snapshot)
+ goto no_cluster;
+
cpumask_copy(msk, node_cpumask);
/* Probe how many clusters in this node. */
@@ -307,7 +391,7 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
break;
- cluster_mask = topology_cluster_cpumask(cpu);
+ cluster_mask = cluster_snapshot[cpu];
if (!cpumask_weight(cluster_mask))
goto no_cluster;
/* Clean out CPUs on the same cluster. */
@@ -322,7 +406,7 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
/* Allocate memory based on cluster number. */
clusters = kzalloc_objs(*clusters, ncluster);
if (!clusters)
- goto no_cluster;
+ return -ENOMEM;
cluster_groups = kzalloc_objs(struct node_groups, ncluster);
if (!cluster_groups)
goto fail_cluster_groups;
@@ -331,7 +415,7 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
cpumask_copy(msk, node_cpumask);
for (n = 0; n < ncluster; n++) {
cpu = cpumask_first(msk);
- cluster_mask = topology_cluster_cpumask(cpu);
+ cluster_mask = cluster_snapshot[cpu];
nc = cpumask_weight_and(cluster_mask, node_cpumask);
clusters[n] = cluster_mask;
cluster_groups[n].id = n;
@@ -347,6 +431,7 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
fail_cluster_groups:
kfree(clusters);
+ return -ENOMEM;
no_cluster:
return 0;
}
@@ -354,9 +439,9 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
/*
* Try group CPUs evenly for cluster locality within a NUMA node.
*
- * Return: true if success, false otherwise.
+ * Return: cluster count on success, 0 if inapplicable, or -ENOMEM on failure.
*/
-static bool __try_group_cluster_cpus(unsigned int ncpus,
+static int __try_group_cluster_cpus(unsigned int ncpus,
unsigned int ngroups,
struct cpumask *node_cpumask,
struct cpumask *masks,
@@ -365,18 +450,17 @@ static bool __try_group_cluster_cpus(uns
{
struct node_groups *cluster_groups;
const struct cpumask **clusters;
- unsigned int ncluster;
- bool ret = false;
+ int ncluster;
cpumask_var_t nmsk;
unsigned int i, nc;
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
- goto fail_nmsk_alloc;
+ return -ENOMEM;
ncluster = alloc_cluster_groups(ncpus, ngroups, node_cpumask, nmsk,
&clusters, &cluster_groups);
- if (ncluster == 0)
+ if (ncluster <= 0)
goto fail_no_clusters;
for (i = 0; i < ncluster; i++) {
@@ -392,13 +476,11 @@ static bool __try_group_cluster_cpus(uns
assign_cpus_to_groups(nc, nmsk, nv, masks, curgrp, last_grp);
}
- ret = true;
kfree(cluster_groups);
kfree(clusters);
fail_no_clusters:
free_cpumask_var(nmsk);
- fail_nmsk_alloc:
- return ret;
+ return ncluster;
}
static int __group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int startgrp, unsigned int numgrps,
@@ -442,6 +524,7 @@ static int __group_cpus_evenly(unsigned
for (i = 0; i < nr_node_ids; i++) {
unsigned int ncpus;
struct node_groups *nv = &node_groups[i];
+ int ret;
if (nv->ngroups == UINT_MAX)
continue;
@@ -454,14 +537,16 @@ static int __group_cpus_evenly(unsigned
WARN_ON_ONCE(nv->ngroups > ncpus);
- if (__try_group_cluster_cpus(ncpus, nv->ngroups, nmsk,
- masks, &curgrp, last_grp)) {
- done += nv->ngroups;
- continue;
+ ret = __try_group_cluster_cpus(ncpus, nv->ngroups, nmsk,
+ masks, &curgrp, last_grp);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ kfree(node_groups);
+ return ret;
}
- assign_cpus_to_groups(ncpus, nmsk, nv, masks, &curgrp,
- last_grp);
+ if (!ret)
+ assign_cpus_to_groups(ncpus, nmsk, nv, masks, &curgrp,
+ last_grp);
done += nv->ngroups;
}
kfree(node_groups);
@@ -496,6 +581,8 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsign
if (numgrps == 0)
return NULL;
+ capture_cluster_snapshot();
+
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
return NULL;
_
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@ 2026-10-27 15:37 Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-10-27 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, wangyang.guo, tim.c.chen, tianyou.li, tglx, stable,
radu, dan.liang, bp, Vishal.Badole, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: lib/group_cpus: snapshot cluster masks to keep grouping hotplug invariant
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
lib-group_cpus-snapshot-cluster-masks-to-keep-grouping-hotplug-invariant.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
------------------------------------------------------
From: Vishal Badole <Vishal.Badole@amd.com>
Subject: lib/group_cpus: snapshot cluster masks to keep grouping hotplug invariant
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:45:37 +0530
group_cpus_evenly() builds the managed-IRQ affinity spread used by
multi-queue devices such as NVMe. That spread is meant to be a property
of the static CPU topology: it walks cpu_present_mask and then
cpu_possible_mask so every hardware queue owns a fixed set of CPUs,
including CPUs that are offline at the time. A driver depends on that
partition staying stable across re-computation - the CPUs a queue is given
at probe must still describe the same queue after the device is later
reset and its affinity recomputed.
On an AMD system that stability breaks across an s2idle cycle. With CPUs
3-11 offlined and only CPUs 0-2 left online, the machine is suspended to
s2idle and resumed. The NVMe controller uses the simple-suspend quirk, so
resume fully re-initialises it and recomputes the affinity spread. The
system then hangs for roughly two minutes and stays sluggish afterwards,
the controller only making progress through its command-timeout poll:
nvme nvme0: I/O tag 898 (3382) QID 9 timeout, completion polled
nvme nvme0: I/O tag 398 (618e) QID 11 timeout, completion polled
QID 9 and QID 11 are the queues whose CPUs were offline when the spread
was recomputed. "completion polled" means the commands did finish in
hardware, but their interrupts were never delivered to a CPU that was
watching the queue, so nothing reaped them until the timeout fired.
It happens because commit 89802ca36c96 ("lib/group_cpus: make group CPU
cluster aware") derives the cluster groups from
topology_cluster_cpumask(), which lists only the cluster siblings that are
online when it is called. The resulting partition therefore depends on
the transient online mask rather than on the topology alone. Recomputed
on resume while the non-boot CPUs are still offline, it no longer matches
the boot-time partition, and a queue is left with an affinity that does
not cover the CPU it is meant to serve once that CPU comes back online.
The dependence is on the online mask, not on any AMD-specific behaviour,
so the same stall is reproducible on Intel platforms as well.
Make the cluster grouping depend on the complete cluster topology rather
than on whichever CPUs happen to be online. Snapshot the cluster masks
once while every present CPU is online and reuse that view for every later
spread. Every spread then groups from the same masks, so the partition
computed when the controller is reset matches the one computed at probe
and each queue's IRQ still covers the CPUs it serves. If the snapshot was
never taken, the cluster path is skipped and the plain present/possible
spread is used.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260826171537.4167367-1-Vishal.Badole@amd.com
Fixes: 89802ca36c96 ("lib/group_cpus: make group CPU cluster aware")
Signed-off-by: Vishal Badole <Vishal.Badole@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@intel.com>
Tested-by: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@intel.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Liang <dan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
lib/group_cpus.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 85 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/group_cpus.c~lib-group_cpus-snapshot-cluster-masks-to-keep-grouping-hotplug-invariant
+++ a/lib/group_cpus.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include <linux/group_cpus.h>
@@ -286,6 +287,77 @@ static void assign_cpus_to_groups(unsign
}
}
+/*
+ * topology_cluster_cpumask() only lists the cluster siblings that are online,
+ * so group_cpus_evenly() would compute a different managed-IRQ partition when
+ * recomputed with CPUs offline (e.g. an NVMe reset across s2idle), steering a
+ * queue's IRQ away from the CPU it serves.
+ *
+ * Snapshot the cluster masks once, on the first spread seen with every
+ * present CPU online, and reuse it so the grouping stays stable. If no
+ * snapshot exists (partial boot via maxcpus=/nosmp, or allocation failure)
+ * the cluster path is skipped and the plain present/possible spread is
+ * used. Only the cluster path is stabilised; grp_spread_init_one()'s
+ * sibling mask is unchanged. The snapshot lives for the system lifetime
+ * and is not refreshed for CPUs hot-added after boot.
+ */
+static cpumask_var_t *cluster_snapshot;
+static bool cluster_snapshot_ready;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(cluster_snapshot_lock);
+
+static void capture_cluster_snapshot(void)
+{
+ cpumask_var_t *snapshot;
+ unsigned int cpu;
+
+ /* Pairs with the smp_store_release() below. */
+ if (smp_load_acquire(&cluster_snapshot_ready))
+ return;
+
+ /* Only capture when all present CPUs are online. */
+ if (!data_race(cpumask_equal(cpu_present_mask, cpu_online_mask)))
+ return;
+
+ mutex_lock(&cluster_snapshot_lock);
+ if (cluster_snapshot_ready)
+ goto out;
+
+ snapshot = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*snapshot), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!snapshot)
+ goto out;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&snapshot[cpu], GFP_KERNEL))
+ goto free_snapshot;
+
+ /* Trylock: a caller may hold a lock the hotplug writer needs. */
+ if (!cpus_read_trylock())
+ goto free_snapshot;
+
+ /* Recheck under the lock, which also pins the cluster masks. */
+ if (!data_race(cpumask_equal(cpu_present_mask, cpu_online_mask))) {
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+ goto free_snapshot;
+ }
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ cpumask_copy(snapshot[cpu], topology_cluster_cpumask(cpu));
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+
+ cluster_snapshot = snapshot;
+ /* Publish the filled snapshot before the ready flag. */
+ smp_store_release(&cluster_snapshot_ready, true);
+ goto out;
+
+free_snapshot:
+ /* Unallocated entries are NULL, which free_cpumask_var() ignores. */
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ free_cpumask_var(snapshot[cpu]);
+ kfree(snapshot);
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&cluster_snapshot_lock);
+}
+
static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned int ncpus,
unsigned int ngroups,
struct cpumask *node_cpumask,
@@ -299,6 +371,17 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
const struct cpumask **clusters;
struct node_groups *cluster_groups;
+ /*
+ * Capture on the first spread with every present CPU online (normally
+ * the first device probe); later spreads reuse it. Sample the ready
+ * flag once so both loops below use one consistent source.
+ */
+ capture_cluster_snapshot();
+
+ /* Pairs with the smp_store_release() in capture_cluster_snapshot(). */
+ if (!smp_load_acquire(&cluster_snapshot_ready))
+ goto no_cluster;
+
cpumask_copy(msk, node_cpumask);
/* Probe how many clusters in this node. */
@@ -307,7 +390,7 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
break;
- cluster_mask = topology_cluster_cpumask(cpu);
+ cluster_mask = cluster_snapshot[cpu];
if (!cpumask_weight(cluster_mask))
goto no_cluster;
/* Clean out CPUs on the same cluster. */
@@ -331,7 +414,7 @@ static int alloc_cluster_groups(unsigned
cpumask_copy(msk, node_cpumask);
for (n = 0; n < ncluster; n++) {
cpu = cpumask_first(msk);
- cluster_mask = topology_cluster_cpumask(cpu);
+ cluster_mask = cluster_snapshot[cpu];
nc = cpumask_weight_and(cluster_mask, node_cpumask);
clusters[n] = cluster_mask;
cluster_groups[n].id = n;
_
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