[ 100/128] smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race

Ben Hutchings
2013-02-03T14:58:16Z

From: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>

commit f44310b98ddb7f0d06550d73ed67df5865e3eda5 upstream.

I get the following warning every day with v3.7, once or
twice a day:

[ 2235.186027] WARNING: at /mnt/sda7/kernel/linux/arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:109 default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x2f/0xb8()

As explained by Linus as well:

|
| Once we've done the "list_add_rcu()" to add it to the
| queue, we can have (another) IPI to the target CPU that can
| now see it and clear the mask.
|
| So by the time we get to actually send the IPI, the mask might
| have been cleared by another IPI.
|

This patch also fixes a system hang problem, if the data->cpumask
gets cleared after passing this point:

if (WARN_ONCE(!mask, "empty IPI mask"))
return;

then the problem in commit 83d349f35e1a ("x86: don't send an IPI to
the empty set of CPU's") will happen again.

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mina86@mina86.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130126075357.GA3205@udknight
[ Tidied up the changelog and the comment in the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
kernel/smp.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 29dd40a..69f38bd 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct call_function_data {
struct call_single_data csd;
atomic_t refs;
cpumask_var_t cpumask;
+ cpumask_var_t cpumask_ipi;
};

static DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct call_function_data, cfd_data);
@@ -56,6 +57,9 @@ hotplug_cfd(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&cfd->cpumask, GFP_KERNEL,
cpu_to_node(cpu)))
return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&cfd->cpumask_ipi, GFP_KERNEL,
+ cpu_to_node(cpu)))
+ return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
break;

#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -65,6 +69,7 @@ hotplug_cfd(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
case CPU_DEAD:
case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
free_cpumask_var(cfd->cpumask);
+ free_cpumask_var(cfd->cpumask_ipi);
break;
#endif
};
@@ -526,6 +531,12 @@ void smp_call_function_many(const struct cpumask *mask,
return;
}

+ /*
+ * After we put an entry into the list, data->cpumask
+ * may be cleared again when another CPU sends another IPI for
+ * a SMP function call, so data->cpumask will be zero.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(data->cpumask_ipi, data->cpumask);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&call_function.lock, flags);
/*
* Place entry at the _HEAD_ of the list, so that any cpu still
@@ -549,7 +560,7 @@ void smp_call_function_many(const struct cpumask *mask,
smp_mb();

/* Send a message to all CPUs in the map */
- arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(data->cpumask);
+ arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(data->cpumask_ipi);

/* Optionally wait for the CPUs to complete */
if (wait)