Even after mm/vmstat:online teardown, shepherd may still queue work for
the dying cpu until the cpu is removed from online mask. While it's
quite rare, this means that after unbind_workers() unbinds a per-cpu
kworker, it potentially runs vmstat_update for the dying CPU on an
irrelevant cpu before entering STARTING section.
When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, it results in the following error with the
backtrace.
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: \
kworker/7:3/1702
caller is refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1702 Comm: kworker/7:3 Tainted: G
Tainted: [N]=TEST
Workqueue: mm_percpu_wq vmstat_update
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
vmstat_update+0x17/0xa0
process_one_work+0x869/0x1aa0
worker_thread+0x5e5/0x1100
kthread+0x29e/0x380
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
So, disable vmstat_work reliably on vmstat_cpu_down_prep().
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmstat.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 4d016314a56c..44e1d87dcf01 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -2154,7 +2154,7 @@ static int vmstat_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
static int vmstat_cpu_down_prep(unsigned int cpu)
{
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu));
+ disable_delayed_work_sync(&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu));
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
