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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-02-26 18:44:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-02-26 22:25:17 +0100 |
| commit | 46c498c2cdee5efe44f617bcd4f388179be36115 (patch) | |
| tree | a1f854a24210acb01caa1f9d345297151ef9c97e /kernel/stop_machine.c | |
| parent | 1a13c0b181f218bf56a1a6b8edbaf2876b22314b (diff) | |
stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled early
commit 14e568e78 (stop_machine: Use smpboot threads) introduced the
following regression:
Before this commit the stopper enabled bit was set in the online
notifier.
CPU0 CPU1
cpu_up
cpu online
hotplug_notifier(ONLINE)
stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true;
...
stop_machine()
The conversion to smpboot threads moved the enablement to the wakeup
path of the parked thread. The majority of users seem to have the
following working order:
CPU0 CPU1
cpu_up
cpu online
unpark_threads()
wakeup(stopper[CPU1])
....
stopper thread runs
stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true;
stop_machine()
But Konrad and Sander have observed:
CPU0 CPU1
cpu_up
cpu online
unpark_threads()
wakeup(stopper[CPU1])
....
stop_machine()
stopper thread runs
stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true;
Now the stop machinery kicks CPU0 into the stop loop, where it gets
stuck forever because the queue code saw stopper(CPU1)->enabled ==
false, so CPU0 waits for CPU1 to enter stomp_machine, but the CPU1
stopper work got discarded due to enabled == false.
Add a pre_unpark function to the smpboot thread descriptor and call it
before waking the thread.
This fixes the problem at hand, but the stop_machine code should be
more robust. The stopper->enabled flag smells fishy at best.
Thanks to Konrad for going through a loop of debug patches and
providing the information to decode this issue.
Reported-and-tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1302261843240.22263@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/stop_machine.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c index 95d178c62d5a..c09f2955ae30 100644 --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static struct smp_hotplug_thread cpu_stop_threads = { .create = cpu_stop_create, .setup = cpu_stop_unpark, .park = cpu_stop_park, - .unpark = cpu_stop_unpark, + .pre_unpark = cpu_stop_unpark, .selfparking = true, }; |