This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/resctrl: Fix task CLOSID/RMID update race
to the 4.19-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:
x86-resctrl-fix-task-closid-rmid-update-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 43426e36aa54fdc446332f04cca2d93d46e4227d
Author: Peter Newman <peternewman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 20 17:11:23 2022 +0100
x86/resctrl: Fix task CLOSID/RMID update race
[ Upstream commit fe1f0714385fbcf76b0cbceb02b7277d842014fc ]
When the user moves a running task to a new rdtgroup using the task's
file interface or by deleting its rdtgroup, the resulting change in
CLOSID/RMID must be immediately propagated to the PQR_ASSOC MSR on the
task(s) CPUs.
x86 allows reordering loads with prior stores, so if the task starts
running between a task_curr() check that the CPU hoisted before the
stores in the CLOSID/RMID update then it can start running with the old
CLOSID/RMID until it is switched again because __rdtgroup_move_task()
failed to determine that it needs to be interrupted to obtain the new
CLOSID/RMID.
Refer to the diagram below:
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
__rdtgroup_move_task():
curr <- t1->cpu->rq->curr
__schedule():
rq->curr <- t1
resctrl_sched_in():
t1->{closid,rmid} -> {1,1}
t1->{closid,rmid} <- {2,2}
if (curr == t1) // false
IPI(t1->cpu)
A similar race impacts rdt_move_group_tasks(), which updates tasks in a
deleted rdtgroup.
In both cases, use smp_mb() to order the task_struct::{closid,rmid}
stores before the loads in task_curr(). In particular, in the
rdt_move_group_tasks() case, simply execute an smp_mb() on every
iteration with a matching task.
It is possible to use a single smp_mb() in rdt_move_group_tasks(), but
this would require two passes and a means of remembering which
task_structs were updated in the first loop. However, benchmarking
results below showed too little performance impact in the simple
approach to justify implementing the two-pass approach.
Times below were collected using `perf stat` to measure the time to
remove a group containing a 1600-task, parallel workload.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum P-8136 CPU @ 2.00GHz (112 threads)
# mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test
# echo $$ > /sys/fs/resctrl/test/tasks
# perf bench sched messaging -g 40 -l 100000
task-clock time ranges collected using:
# perf stat rmdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test
Baseline: 1.54 - 1.60 ms
smp_mb() every matching task: 1.57 - 1.67 ms
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: ae28d1aae48a ("x86/resctrl: Use an IPI instead of task_work_add() to update PQR_ASSOC MSR")
Fixes: 0efc89be9471 ("x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount")
Signed-off-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220161123.432120-1-peternewman@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c
index 8c405149c671..1125f752f126 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c
@@ -585,8 +585,10 @@ static int __rdtgroup_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
/*
* Ensure the task's closid and rmid are written before determining if
* the task is current that will decide if it will be interrupted.
+ * This pairs with the full barrier between the rq->curr update and
+ * resctrl_sched_in() during context switch.
*/
- barrier();
+ smp_mb();
/*
* By now, the task's closid and rmid are set. If the task is current
@@ -2140,6 +2142,14 @@ static void rdt_move_group_tasks(struct rdtgroup *from, struct rdtgroup *to,
t->closid = to->closid;
t->rmid = to->mon.rmid;
+ /*
+ * Order the closid/rmid stores above before the loads
+ * in task_curr(). This pairs with the full barrier
+ * between the rq->curr update and resctrl_sched_in()
+ * during context switch.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+
/*
* If the task is on a CPU, set the CPU in the mask.
* The detection is inaccurate as tasks might move or
