From: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org, peterz@infradead.org,
shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] clockevents: Fix cpu_down() race for hrtimer based broadcasting
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:49:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150428091927.4116.94102.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com> (raw)
commit 345527b1edce8df719e0884500c76832a18211c3 upstream
It was found when doing a hotplug stress test on POWER, that the
machine either hit softlockups or rcu_sched stall warnings. The
issue was traced to commit:
7cba160ad789 ("powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management")
which exposed the cpu_down() race with hrtimer based broadcast mode:
5d1638acb9f6 ("tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast")
The race is the following:
Assume CPU1 is the CPU which holds the hrtimer broadcasting duty
before it is taken down.
CPU0 CPU1
cpu_down() take_cpu_down()
disable_interrupts()
cpu_die()
while (CPU1 != CPU_DEAD) {
msleep(100);
switch_to_idle();
stop_cpu_timer();
schedule_broadcast();
}
tick_cleanup_cpu_dead()
take_over_broadcast()
So after CPU1 disabled interrupts it cannot handle the broadcast
hrtimer anymore, so CPU0 will be stuck forever.
Fix this by explicitly taking over broadcast duty before cpu_die().
This is a temporary workaround. What we really want is a callback
in the clockevent device which allows us to do that from the dying
CPU by pushing the hrtimer onto a different cpu. That might involve
an IPI and is definitely more complex than this immediate fix.
Changelog was picked up from:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/213
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150330092410.24979.59887.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
[ Merged it to the latest timer tree, renamed the callback, tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
Please apply this to 3.19 stable.
kernel/cpu.c | 2 ++
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 5d22023..53bec17 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/lockdep.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
#include <trace/events/power.h>
#include "smpboot.h"
@@ -421,6 +422,7 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
while (!idle_cpu(cpu))
cpu_relax();
+ hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull(cpu);
/* This actually kills the CPU. */
__cpu_die(cpu);
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 066f0ec..25fb004 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -669,14 +669,19 @@ static void broadcast_shutdown_local(struct clock_event_device *bc,
clockevents_set_mode(dev, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN);
}
-static void broadcast_move_bc(int deadcpu)
+void hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull(int deadcpu)
{
- struct clock_event_device *bc = tick_broadcast_device.evtdev;
+ struct clock_event_device *bc;
+ unsigned long flags;
- if (!bc || !broadcast_needs_cpu(bc, deadcpu))
- return;
- /* This moves the broadcast assignment to this cpu */
- clockevents_program_event(bc, bc->next_event, 1);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
+ bc = tick_broadcast_device.evtdev;
+
+ if (bc && broadcast_needs_cpu(bc, deadcpu)) {
+ /* This moves the broadcast assignment to this CPU: */
+ clockevents_program_event(bc, bc->next_event, 1);
+ }
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
}
/*
@@ -913,8 +918,6 @@ void tick_shutdown_broadcast_oneshot(unsigned int *cpup)
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_pending_mask);
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_force_mask);
- broadcast_move_bc(cpu);
-
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
}
next reply other threads:[~2015-04-28 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 9:19 Preeti U Murthy [this message]
2015-05-02 18:35 ` [PATCH] clockevents: Fix cpu_down() race for hrtimer based broadcasting Greg KH
2015-05-04 5:21 ` Preeti U Murthy
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