Re: [tip:timers/urgent] tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down

[Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>]

On 05/05/2013 02:20 AM, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Commit-ID:  ae7868e241c015aadc8632d9fe633a102a5918f6
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ae7868e241c015aadc8632d9fe633a102a5918f6
> Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> AuthorDate: Fri, 3 May 2013 15:02:50 +0200
> Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> CommitDate: Sun, 5 May 2013 08:15:11 +0200
> 
> tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
> 
> Prarit reported a crash on CPU offline/online. The reason is that on
> CPU down the NOHZ related per cpu data of the dead cpu is not cleaned
> up. If at cpu online an interrupt happens before the per cpu tick
> device is registered the irq_enter() check potentially sees stale data
> and dereferences a NULL pointer.
> 
> Cleanup the data after the cpu is dead.
> 
> Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305031451561.2886@ionos
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> ---
>  kernel/time/tick-common.c   | 1 +
>  kernel/time/tick-internal.h | 6 ++++++
>  kernel/time/tick-sched.c    | 7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

Whoa -- I thought I said I'll test this first.  It doesn't work :( so that means
something else is wrong ... I'm in the middle of debug ATM.

P.

> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
> index 6176a3e..29b765d 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
> @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ static int tick_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long reason,
>  		tick_shutdown_broadcast_oneshot(dev);
>  		tick_shutdown_broadcast(dev);
>  		tick_shutdown(dev);
> +		tick_shutdown_nohz(dev);
>  		break;
>  
>  	case CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_SUSPEND:
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
> index f0299ea..9644b29 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
> @@ -144,3 +144,9 @@ static inline int tick_device_is_functional(struct clock_event_device *dev)
>  #endif
>  
>  extern void do_timer(unsigned long ticks);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
> +extern void tick_shutdown_nohz(unsigned int *cpup);
> +#else
> +static inline void tick_shutdown_nohz(unsigned int *cpup) { }
> +#endif
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> index 225f8bf..e985ccd 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -797,6 +797,13 @@ static inline void tick_check_nohz(int cpu)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +void tick_shutdown_nohz(unsigned int *cpup)
> +{
> +	struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu);
> +
> +	memset(ts, 0, sizeof(*ts));
> +}
> +
>  #else
>  
>  static inline void tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(void) { }