[PATCH 3.16 230/254] hrtimer: Reset hrtimer cpu base proper on CPU hotplug

Ben Hutchings
2018-02-28T16:56:05Z

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

commit d5421ea43d30701e03cadc56a38854c36a8b4433 upstream.

The hrtimer interrupt code contains a hang detection and mitigation
mechanism, which prevents that a long delayed hrtimer interrupt causes a
continous retriggering of interrupts which prevent the system from making
progress. If a hang is detected then the timer hardware is programmed with
a certain delay into the future and a flag is set in the hrtimer cpu base
which prevents newly enqueued timers from reprogramming the timer hardware
prior to the chosen delay. The subsequent hrtimer interrupt after the delay
clears the flag and resumes normal operation.

If such a hang happens in the last hrtimer interrupt before a CPU is
unplugged then the hang_detected flag is set and stays that way when the
CPU is plugged in again. At that point the timer hardware is not armed and
it cannot be armed because the hang_detected flag is still active, so
nothing clears that flag. As a consequence the CPU does not receive hrtimer
interrupts and no timers expire on that CPU which results in RCU stalls and
other malfunctions.

Clear the flag along with some other less critical members of the hrtimer
cpu base to ensure starting from a clean state when a CPU is plugged in.

Thanks to Paul, Sebastian and Anna-Maria for their help to get down to the
root cause of that hard to reproduce heisenbug. Once understood it's
trivial and certainly justifies a brown paperbag.

Fixes: 41d2e4949377 ("hrtimer: Tune hrtimer_interrupt hang logic")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Sewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801261447590.2067@nanos
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
- There's no next_timer field to reset
- Adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
kernel/hrtimer.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ static int hrtimer_reprogram(struct hrti
static inline void hrtimer_init_hres(struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base)
{
base->expires_next.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
+ base->hang_detected = 0;
base->hres_active = 0;
}

@@ -1680,6 +1681,7 @@ static void init_hrtimers_cpu(int cpu)
timerqueue_init_head(&cpu_base->clock_base[i].active);
}

+ cpu_base->active_bases = 0;
hrtimer_init_hres(cpu_base);
}