This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rcutorture: Fix ksoftirqd boosting timing and iteration
to the 5.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rcutorture-fix-ksoftirqd-boosting-timing-and-iterati.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2d3b40a019116cd7993116d91ebd955966bf9f0d
Author: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 10 15:03:57 2022 +0200
rcutorture: Fix ksoftirqd boosting timing and iteration
[ Upstream commit 3002153a91a9732a6d1d0bb95138593c7da15743 ]
The RCU priority boosting can fail in two situations:
1) If (nr_cpus= > maxcpus=), which means if the total number of CPUs
is higher than those brought online at boot, then torture_onoff() may
later bring up CPUs that weren't online on boot. Now since rcutorture
initialization only boosts the ksoftirqds of the CPUs that have been
set online on boot, the CPUs later set online by torture_onoff won't
benefit from the boost, making RCU priority boosting fail.
2) The ksoftirqd kthreads are boosted after the creation of
rcu_torture_boost() kthreads, which opens a window large enough for these
rcu_torture_boost() kthreads to wait (despite running at FIFO priority)
for ksoftirqds that are still running at SCHED_NORMAL priority.
The issues can trigger for example with:
./kvm.sh --configs TREE01 --kconfig "CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y"
[ 34.968561] rcu-torture: !!!
[ 34.968627] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 35.014054] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 114 at kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1979 rcu_torture_stats_print+0x5ad/0x610
[ 35.052043] Modules linked in:
[ 35.069138] CPU: 4 PID: 114 Comm: rcu_torture_sta Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1 #1
[ 35.096424] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
[ 35.154570] RIP: 0010:rcu_torture_stats_print+0x5ad/0x610
[ 35.198527] Code: 63 1b 02 00 74 02 0f 0b 48 83 3d 35 63 1b 02 00 74 02 0f 0b 48 83 3d 21 63 1b 02 00 74 02 0f 0b 48 83 3d 0d 63 1b 02 00 74 02 <0f> 0b 83 eb 01 0f 8e ba fc ff ff 0f 0b e9 b3 fc ff f82
[ 37.251049] RSP: 0000:ffffa92a0050bdf8 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 37.277320] rcu: De-offloading 8
[ 37.290367] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 37.290387] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffbfff RDI: 00000000ffffffff
[ 37.290398] RBP: 000000000000007b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffbfff
[ 37.290407] R10: 000000000000002a R11: ffffa92a0050bc18 R12: ffffa92a0050be20
[ 37.290417] R13: ffffa92a0050be78 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000001bea0
[ 37.290427] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff96045eb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 37.290448] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 37.290460] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001dc0c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 37.290470] Call Trace:
[ 37.295049] <TASK>
[ 37.295065] ? preempt_count_add+0x63/0x90
[ 37.295095] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x40
[ 37.295125] ? rcu_torture_stats_print+0x610/0x610
[ 37.295143] rcu_torture_stats+0x29/0x70
[ 37.295160] kthread+0xe3/0x110
[ 37.295176] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 37.295193] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 37.295218] </TASK>
Fix this with boosting the ksoftirqds kthreads from the boosting
hotplug callback itself and before the boosting kthreads are created.
Fixes: ea6d962e80b6 ("rcutorture: Judge RCU priority boosting on grace periods, not callbacks")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 7120165a9342..7c72ee97455f 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -2075,6 +2075,19 @@ static int rcutorture_booster_init(unsigned int cpu)
if (boost_tasks[cpu] != NULL)
return 0; /* Already created, nothing more to do. */
+ // Testing RCU priority boosting requires rcutorture do
+ // some serious abuse. Counter this by running ksoftirqd
+ // at higher priority.
+ if (IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST)) {
+ struct sched_param sp;
+ struct task_struct *t;
+
+ t = per_cpu(ksoftirqd, cpu);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
+ sp.sched_priority = 2;
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+ }
+
/* Don't allow time recalculation while creating a new task. */
mutex_lock(&boost_mutex);
rcu_torture_disable_rt_throttle();
@@ -3329,21 +3342,6 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
rcutor_hp = firsterr;
if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
goto unwind;
-
- // Testing RCU priority boosting requires rcutorture do
- // some serious abuse. Counter this by running ksoftirqd
- // at higher priority.
- if (IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST)) {
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
- struct sched_param sp;
- struct task_struct *t;
-
- t = per_cpu(ksoftirqd, cpu);
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
- sp.sched_priority = 2;
- sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
- }
- }
}
shutdown_jiffies = jiffies + shutdown_secs * HZ;
firsterr = torture_shutdown_init(shutdown_secs, rcu_torture_cleanup);
