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From: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, kernel-team@android.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/smp: Move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:02:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b4c324abdabd12d7bd5346c18411e667afe6a55.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201105222242.GA8842@willie-the-truck>

On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 22:22 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:33:25PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:26:14 -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > The call to rcu_cpu_starting() in secondary_start_kernel() is not early
> > > enough in the CPU-hotplug onlining process, which results in lockdep
> > > splats as follows:
> > > 
> > >  WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> > >  -----------------------------
> > >  kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3497 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!
> > 
> > [1/1] arm64/smp: Move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier
> >       https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/ce3d31ad3cac
> 
> Hmm, this patch has caused a regression in the case that we fail to
> online a CPU because it has incompatible CPU features and so we park it
> in cpu_die_early(). We now get an endless spew of RCU stalls because the
> core will never come online, but is being tracked by RCU. So I'm tempted
> to revert this and live with the lockdep warning while we figure out a
> proper fix.
> 
> What's the correct say to undo rcu_cpu_starting(), given that we cannot
> invoke the full hotplug machinery here? Is it correct to call
> rcutree_dying_cpu() on the bad CPU and then rcutree_dead_cpu() from the
> CPU doing cpu_up(), or should we do something else?
It looks to me that rcu_report_dead() does the opposite of rcu_cpu_starting(),
so lift rcu_report_dead() out of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and use it there to rewind,
Paul?


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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-28 18:26 [PATCH] arm64/smp: Move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier Qian Cai
2020-10-28 21:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-10-29  9:10 ` Will Deacon
2020-10-29 13:17   ` Qian Cai
2020-10-30  8:15     ` Will Deacon
2020-10-29 14:09   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-10-30 16:33 ` Will Deacon
2020-11-05 22:22   ` Will Deacon
2020-11-05 23:02     ` Qian Cai [this message]
2020-11-05 23:28       ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-06  2:15         ` Qian Cai
2020-11-06  4:07           ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-06 10:37           ` Will Deacon
2020-11-06 12:48             ` Qian Cai

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