[added to the 3.18 stable tree] workqueue: fix rebind bound workers warning

Sasha Levin
2016-05-19T04:18:56Z

From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit f7c17d26f43d5cc1b7a6b896cd2fa24a079739b9 ]

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at kernel/workqueue.c:4559 rebind_workers+0x1c0/0x1d0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc4+ #31
Hardware name: IBM IBM System x3550 M4 Server -[7914IUW]-/00Y8603, BIOS -[D7E128FUS-1.40]- 07/23/2013
0000000000000000 ffff881037babb58 ffffffff8139d885 0000000000000010
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff881037babba8
ffffffff8108505d ffff881037ba0000 000011cf3e7d6e60 0000000000000046
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x89/0xd4
__warn+0xfd/0x120
warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
rebind_workers+0x1c0/0x1d0
workqueue_cpu_up_callback+0xf5/0x1d0
notifier_call_chain+0x64/0x90
? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf2/0x220
? notify_prepare+0x80/0x80
__raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
__cpu_notify+0x35/0x50
notify_down_prepare+0x5e/0x80
? notify_prepare+0x80/0x80
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x73/0x330
? __schedule+0x33e/0x8a0
cpuhp_down_callbacks+0x51/0xc0
cpuhp_thread_fun+0xc1/0xf0
smpboot_thread_fn+0x159/0x2a0
? smpboot_create_threads+0x80/0x80
kthread+0xef/0x110
? wait_for_completion+0xf0/0x120
? schedule_tail+0x35/0xf0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x50
? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
---[ end trace eb12ae47d2382d8f ]---
notify_down_prepare: attempt to take down CPU 0 failed

This bug can be reproduced by below config w/ nohz_full= all cpus:

CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y

As Thomas pointed out:

| If a down prepare callback fails, then DOWN_FAILED is invoked for all
| callbacks which have successfully executed DOWN_PREPARE.
|
| But, workqueue has actually two notifiers. One which handles
| UP/DOWN_FAILED/ONLINE and one which handles DOWN_PREPARE.
|
| Now look at the priorities of those callbacks:
|
| CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_UP = 5
| CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_DOWN = -5
|
| So the call order on DOWN_PREPARE is:
|
| CB 1
| CB ...
| CB workqueue_up() -> Ignores DOWN_PREPARE
| CB ...
| CB X ---> Fails
|
| So we call up to CB X with DOWN_FAILED
|
| CB 1
| CB ...
| CB workqueue_up() -> Handles DOWN_FAILED
| CB ...
| CB X-1
|
| So the problem is that the workqueue stuff handles DOWN_FAILED in the up
| callback, while it should do it in the down callback. Which is not a good idea
| either because it wants to be called early on rollback...
|
| Brilliant stuff, isn't it? The hotplug rework will solve this problem because
| the callbacks become symetric, but for the existing mess, we need some
| workaround in the workqueue code.

The boot CPU handles housekeeping duty(unbound timers, workqueues,
timekeeping, ...) on behalf of full dynticks CPUs. It must remain
online when nohz full is enabled. There is a priority set to every
notifier_blocks:

workqueue_cpu_up > tick_nohz_cpu_down > workqueue_cpu_down

So tick_nohz_cpu_down callback failed when down prepare cpu 0, and
notifier_blocks behind tick_nohz_cpu_down will not be called any
more, which leads to workers are actually not unbound. Then hotplug
state machine will fallback to undo and online cpu 0 again. Workers
will be rebound unconditionally even if they are not unbound and
trigger the warning in this progress.

This patch fix it by catching !DISASSOCIATED to avoid rebind bound
workers.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index fabb96d..0963b7f 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4542,6 +4542,17 @@ static void rebind_workers(struct worker_pool *pool)
pool->attrs->cpumask) < 0);

spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: CPU hotplug notifiers are weird and can call DOWN_FAILED
+ * w/o preceding DOWN_PREPARE. Work around it. CPU hotplug is
+ * being reworked and this can go away in time.
+ */
+ if (!(pool->flags & POOL_DISASSOCIATED)) {
+ spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
pool->flags &= ~POOL_DISASSOCIATED;

for_each_pool_worker(worker, pool) {
--
2.5.0