Re: [PATCH v1] kthread/smpboot: Serialize kthread parking against wakeup

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On 5/1/2018 6:49 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On 5/1/2018 5:01 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

Let me ponder what the best solution is, it's a bit of a mess.

So there's:

  - TASK_PARKED, which we can make a special state; this solves the
    problem because then wait_task_inactive() is guaranteed to see
    TASK_PARKED and DTRT.

Yes this should work, as it takes pi-lock and blocking kthread_parkme.

  - complete(&kthread->parked), which we can do inside schedule(); this
    solves the problem because then kthread_park() will not return early
    and the task really is blocked.

I think complete will not help, as problem is like below :

Control Thread                                CPUHP thread
					
					      cpuhp_thread_fun
					      Wake control thread
					      complete(&st->done);

takedown_cpu
kthread_park
set_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK

					     Here cpuhp is looping,
					//success case
					     Generally when issue is not
					     coming
					     it schedule out by below :
                                           ht->thread_should_run(td->cpu
					      scheduler
					//failure case
					before schedule
					loop check
					(kthread_should_park()
				         enter here as PARKED set

wake_up_process(k)
					__kthread_parkme
					 complete(&self->parked);
SETS RUNNING
		                         schedule			
wait_for_completion(&kthread->parked);


So even we protect complete, it may see TASK_RUNNING as final state.
That's why we took pi-lock , So wake_up_process either see TASK_RUNNING
so return or it will exit early before parkme call.

Please correct me , if i misunderstood it. With pi-lock approach we are not seeing issue. SO you first solution should fix this(put parked in special state).

Regards
Gaurav
					


and I'm fairly sure I thought of a 3rd way to cure things, but now that
I'm writing things down I cannot seem to remember :/ -- could be we muck
with wait_task_inactive().

In any case, I hate all of them, but I think the completion one is the
least horrible because it gives the strongest guarantees and cleans up
most. But promoting TASK_PARKED to special certainly is the earier
patch.

The below boots, but that's about all I did with it. Opinions?

---

--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_str
  int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k);
  void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k);
  void kthread_parkme(void);
+void kthread_park_complete(struct task_struct *k);
int kthreadd(void *unused);
  extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ enum KTHREAD_BITS {
  	KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU = 0,
  	KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP,
  	KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK,
-	KTHREAD_IS_PARKED,
  };
static inline void set_kthread_struct(void *kthread)
@@ -177,14 +176,12 @@ void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_str
static void __kthread_parkme(struct kthread *self)
  {
-	__set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
-	while (test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags)) {
-		if (!test_and_set_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &self->flags))
-			complete(&self->parked);
+	for (;;) {
+		set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
+		if (!test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags))
+			break;
  		schedule();
-		__set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
  	}
-	clear_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &self->flags);
  	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
  }
@@ -194,6 +191,11 @@ void kthread_parkme(void)
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme);
+void kthread_park_complete(struct task_struct *k)
+{
+	complete(&to_kthread(k)->parked);
+}
+
  static int kthread(void *_create)
  {
  	/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
@@ -450,22 +452,15 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *
  {
  	struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(k);
- clear_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
  	/*
-	 * We clear the IS_PARKED bit here as we don't wait
-	 * until the task has left the park code. So if we'd
-	 * park before that happens we'd see the IS_PARKED bit
-	 * which might be about to be cleared.
+	 * Newly created kthread was parked when the CPU was offline.
+	 * The binding was lost and we need to set it again.
  	 */
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &kthread->flags)) {
-		/*
-		 * Newly created kthread was parked when the CPU was offline.
-		 * The binding was lost and we need to set it again.
-		 */
-		if (test_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, &kthread->flags))
-			__kthread_bind(k, kthread->cpu, TASK_PARKED);
-		wake_up_state(k, TASK_PARKED);
-	}
+	if (test_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, &kthread->flags))
+		__kthread_bind(k, kthread->cpu, TASK_PARKED);
+
+	clear_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
+	wake_up_state(k, TASK_PARKED);
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_unpark);
@@ -488,12 +483,13 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
  	if (WARN_ON(k->flags & PF_EXITING))
  		return -ENOSYS;
- if (!test_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &kthread->flags)) {
-		set_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
-		if (k != current) {
-			wake_up_process(k);
-			wait_for_completion(&kthread->parked);
-		}
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags)))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
+	set_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
+	if (k != current) {
+		wake_up_process(k);
+		wait_for_completion(&kthread->parked);
  	}
return 0;
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
   */
  #include "sched.h"
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+
  #include <asm/switch_to.h>
  #include <asm/tlb.h>
@@ -2718,20 +2720,28 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(str
  		membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(mm);
  		mmdrop(mm);
  	}
-	if (unlikely(prev_state == TASK_DEAD)) {
-		if (prev->sched_class->task_dead)
-			prev->sched_class->task_dead(prev);
+	if (unlikely(prev_state & (TASK_DEAD|TASK_PARKED))) {
+		switch (prev_state) {
+		case TASK_DEAD:
+			if (prev->sched_class->task_dead)
+				prev->sched_class->task_dead(prev);
+
+			/*
+			 * Remove function-return probe instances associated with this
+			 * task and put them back on the free list.
+			 */
+			kprobe_flush_task(prev);
- /*
-		 * Remove function-return probe instances associated with this
-		 * task and put them back on the free list.
-		 */
-		kprobe_flush_task(prev);
+			/* Task is done with its stack. */
+			put_task_stack(prev);
- /* Task is done with its stack. */
-		put_task_stack(prev);
+			put_task_struct(prev);
+			break;
- put_task_struct(prev);
+		case TASK_PARKED:
+			kthread_park_complete(prev);
+			break;
+		}
  	}
tick_nohz_task_switch();


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