[PATCH 5.4 003/154] sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash when the boot CPU is nohz_full

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-04-08T12:03:24Z

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst states that the "nohz_full=" mask must not
include the boot CPU, which is no longer true after:

08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full").

However after:

aae17ebb53cd ("workqueue: Avoid using isolated cpus' timers on queue_delayed_work")

the kernel will crash at boot time in this case; housekeeping_any_cpu()
returns an invalid CPU number until smp_init() brings the first
housekeeping CPU up.

Change housekeeping_any_cpu() to check the result of cpumask_any_and() and
return smp_processor_id() in this case.

This is just the simple and backportable workaround which fixes the
symptom, but smp_processor_id() at boot time should be safe at least for
type == HK_TYPE_TIMER, this more or less matches the tick_do_timer_boot_cpu
logic.

There is no worry about cpu_down(); tick_nohz_cpu_down() will not allow to
offline tick_do_timer_cpu (the 1st online housekeeping CPU).

[ Apply only documentation changes as commit which causes boot
crash when boot CPU is nohz_full is not backported to stable
kernels - Krishanth ]

Reported-by: Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411143905.GA19288@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240402105847.GA24832@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Krishanth Jagaduri <Krishanth.Jagaduri@sony.com>
[ strip out upstream commit and Fixes: so tools don't get confused that
this commit actually does anything real - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
+++ b/Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst
@@ -129,11 +129,8 @@ adaptive-tick CPUs: At least one non-ad
online to handle timekeeping tasks in order to ensure that system
calls like gettimeofday() returns accurate values on adaptive-tick CPUs.
(This is not an issue for CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y because there are no running
-user processes to observe slight drifts in clock rate.) Therefore, the
-boot CPU is prohibited from entering adaptive-ticks mode. Specifying a
-"nohz_full=" mask that includes the boot CPU will result in a boot-time
-error message, and the boot CPU will be removed from the mask. Note that
-this means that your system must have at least two CPUs in order for
+user processes to observe slight drifts in clock rate.) Note that this
+means that your system must have at least two CPUs in order for
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y to do anything for you.

Finally, adaptive-ticks CPUs must have their RCU callbacks offloaded.