user/sven/linux.git/kernel/cpu.c, branch v4.2.4

genirq: Revert sparse irq locking around __cpu_up() and move it to x86 for now

2015-07-15T08:39:17Z

Boris reported that the sparse_irq protection around __cpu_up() in the generic code causes a regression on Xen. Xen allocates interrupts and some more in the xen_cpu_up() function, so it deadlocks on the sparse_irq_lock. There is no simple fix for this and we really should have the protection for all architectures, but for now the only solution is to move it to x86 where actual wreckage due to the lack of protection has been observed. Reported-and-tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky Fixes: a89941816726 'hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during cpu up/down' Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: xiao jin Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Yanmin Zhang Cc: xen-devel

hotplug: Prevent alloc/free of irq descriptors during cpu up/down

2015-07-08T09:32:25Z

When a cpu goes up some architectures (e.g. x86) have to walk the irq space to set up the vector space for the cpu. While this needs extra protection at the architecture level we can avoid a few race conditions by preventing the concurrent allocation/free of irq descriptors and the associated data. When a cpu goes down it moves the interrupts which are targeted to this cpu away by reassigning the affinities. While this happens interrupts can be allocated and freed, which opens a can of race conditions in the code which reassignes the affinities because interrupt descriptors might be freed underneath. Example: CPU1 CPU2 cpu_up/down irq_desc = irq_to_desc(irq); remove_from_radix_tree(desc); raw_spin_lock(&desc->lock); free(desc); We could protect the irq descriptors with RCU, but that would require a full tree change of all accesses to interrupt descriptors. But fortunately these kind of race conditions are rather limited to a few things like cpu hotplug. The normal setup/teardown is very well serialized. So the simpler and obvious solution is: Prevent allocation and freeing of interrupt descriptors accross cpu hotplug. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: xiao jin Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Yanmin Zhang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150705171102.063519515@linutronix.de

cpu: Remove new instance of __cpuinit that crept back in

2015-05-27T19:58:39Z

We removed __cpuinit support (leaving no-op stubs) quite some time ago. However a new instance was added in commit 00df35f991914db6b8bde8cf0980 ("cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler") Since we want to clobber the stubs soon, get this removed now. Cc: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

cpu: Handle smpboot_unpark_threads() uniformly

2015-05-27T19:58:39Z

Commit 00df35f99191 (cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler) put the online path's call to smpboot_unpark_threads() into a CPU-hotplug notifier. This commit places the offline-failure paths call into the same notifier for the sake of uniformity. Note that it is not currently possible to place the offline path's call to smpboot_park_threads() into an existing notifier because the CPU_DYING notifiers run in a restricted environment, and the CPU_UP_PREPARE notifiers run too soon. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-04-14T20:36:04Z

Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - changes permitting use of call_rcu() and friends very early in boot, for example, before rcu_init() is invoked. - add in-kernel API to enable and disable expediting of normal RCU grace periods. - improve RCU's handling of (hotplug-) outgoing CPUs. - NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes. - tiny-RCU updates to make it more tiny. - documentation updates. - miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits) cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup rcutorture: Default to grace-period-initialization delays rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs rcutorture: Enable slow grace-period initializations rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init() rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization ...

cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler

2015-04-13T06:25:16Z

Currently, smpboot_unpark_threads() is invoked before the incoming CPU has been added to the scheduler's runqueue structures. This might potentially cause the unparked kthread to run on the wrong CPU, since the correct CPU isn't fully set up yet. That causes a sporadic, hard to debug boot crash triggering on some systems, reported by Borislav Petkov, and bisected down to: 2a442c9c6453 ("x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code") This patch places smpboot_unpark_threads() in a CPU hotplug notifier with priority set so that these kthreads are unparked just after the CPU has been added to the runqueues. Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

clockevents: Cleanup dead cpu explicitely

2015-04-03T06:44:37Z

clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the cleanup function for a dead cpu and invoke it directly from the cpu down code. Make it conditional on CPU_HOTPLUG as well. Temporary change, will be refined in the future. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [ Rebased, added clockevents_notify() removal ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1735025.raBZdQHM3m@vostro.rjw.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

clockevents: Make tick handover explicit

2015-04-03T06:44:36Z

clockevents_notify() is a leftover from the early design of the clockevents facility. It's really not a notification mechanism, it's a multiplex call. We are way better off to have explicit calls instead of this monstrosity. Split out the tick_handover call and invoke it explicitely from the hotplug code. Temporary solution will be cleaned up in later patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [ Rebase ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: John Stultz Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1658173.RkEEILFiQZ@vostro.rjw.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

clockevents: Fix cpu_down() race for hrtimer based broadcasting

2015-04-02T12:25:39Z

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 Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy 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

cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise

2015-03-12T22:19:37Z

This commit uses a per-CPU variable to make the CPU-offline code path through the idle loop more precise, so that the outgoing CPU is guaranteed to make it into the idle loop before it is powered off. This commit is in preparation for putting the RCU offline-handling code on this code path, which will eliminate the magic one-jiffy wait that RCU uses as the maximum time for an outgoing CPU to get all the way through the scheduler. The magic one-jiffy wait for incoming CPUs remains a separate issue. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney