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 atomic AP states. 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, for mm/vmstat:online, disable vmstat_work reliably on teardown and symmetrically enable it on startup. Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241220134234.3809621-1-koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ --- mm/vmstat.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 4d016314a56c..0889b75cef14 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -2148,13 +2148,14 @@ static int vmstat_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu) if (!node_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU)) { node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU); } + enable_delayed_work(&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu)); return 0; } 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