Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] sparc64: remove mm_cpumask clearing to fix kthread_use_mm race

Anatoly Pugachev
2020-09-14T10:24:21Z

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of September 14, 2020 2:52 pm:
>
> [...]
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> > The basic fix for sparc64 is to remove its mm_cpumask clearing code. The
> > optimisation could be effectively restored by sending IPIs to mm_cpumask
> > members and having them remove themselves from mm_cpumask. This is more
> > tricky so I leave it as an exercise for someone with a sparc64 SMP.
> > powerpc has a (currently similarly broken) example.
>
> So this compiles and boots on qemu, but qemu does not support any
> sparc64 machines with SMP. Attempting some simple hacks doesn't get
> me far because openbios isn't populating an SMP device tree, which
> blows up everywhere.
>
> The patch is _relatively_ simple, hopefully it shouldn't explode, so
> it's probably ready for testing on real SMP hardware, if someone has
> a few cycles.

Nick,

applied this patch to over 'v5.9-rc5' tag , used my test VM (ldom)
with 32 vcpus.
Machine boot, stress-ng test ( run as
"stress-ng --cpu 8 --io 8 --vm 8 --vm-bytes 2G --fork 8 --timeout 15m" )
finishes without errors.