From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Thomas Gleixner" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Jork Loeser" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Alexey Dobriyan" , "Dmitry Vyukov" , "KY Srinivasan" , "Josh Poulson" , "Dexuan Cui" , "Michael Kelley (EOSG)" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Frederic Weisbecker" , "Rakib Mullick" Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:25:41 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.16 322/366] tick/broadcast: Use for_each_cpu() specially on UP kernels In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.16.60-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dexuan Cui commit 5596fe34495cf0f645f417eb928ef224df3e3cb4 upstream. for_each_cpu() unintuitively reports CPU0 as set independent of the actual cpumask content on UP kernels. This causes an unexpected PIT interrupt storm on a UP kernel running in an SMP virtual machine on Hyper-V, and as a result, the virtual machine can suffer from a strange random delay of 1~20 minutes during boot-up, and sometimes it can hang forever. Protect if by checking whether the cpumask is empty before entering the for_each_cpu() loop. [ tglx: Use !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) instead of #ifdeffery ] Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Josh Poulson Cc: "Michael Kelley (EOSG)" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Rakib Mullick Cc: Jork Loeser Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: KY Srinivasan Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/KL1P15301MB000678289FE55BA365B3279ABF990@KL1P15301MB0006.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/KL1P15301MB0006FA63BC22BEB64902EAA0BF930@KL1P15301MB0006.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -585,6 +585,14 @@ again: now = ktime_get(); /* Find all expired events */ for_each_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask) { + /* + * Required for !SMP because for_each_cpu() reports + * unconditionally CPU0 as set on UP kernels. + */ + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) && + cpumask_empty(tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask)) + break; + td = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_device, cpu); if (td->evtdev->next_event.tv64 <= now.tv64) { cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);