This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched: Stop switched_to_rt() from sending IPIs to offline CPUs
to the 4.14-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:
sched-stop-switched_to_rt-from-sending-ipis-to-offline-cpus.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Fri Mar 16 15:43:17 CET 2018
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:00:18 -0700
Subject: sched: Stop switched_to_rt() from sending IPIs to offline CPUs
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2fe2582649aa2355f79acddb86bd4d6c5363eb63 ]
The rcutorture test suite occasionally provokes a splat due to invoking
rt_mutex_lock() which needs to boost the priority of a task currently
sitting on a runqueue that belongs to an offline CPU:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 12 at /home/paulmck/public_git/linux-rcu/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:128 native_smp_send_reschedule+0x37/0x40
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: rcub/7 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc4+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
task: ffff9ed3de5f8cc0 task.stack: ffffbbf80012c000
RIP: 0010:native_smp_send_reschedule+0x37/0x40
RSP: 0018:ffffbbf80012fd10 EFLAGS: 00010082
RAX: 000000000000002f RBX: ffff9ed3dd9cb300 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: 0000000080000004 RSI: 0000000000000086 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffbbf80012fd10 R08: 000000000009da7a R09: 0000000000007b9d
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffffbb57c2cd R12: 000000000000000d
R13: ffff9ed3de5f8cc0 R14: 0000000000000061 R15: ffff9ed3ded59200
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9ed3dea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000080686f0 CR3: 000000001b9e0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
resched_curr+0x61/0xd0
switched_to_rt+0x8f/0xa0
rt_mutex_setprio+0x25c/0x410
task_blocks_on_rt_mutex+0x1b3/0x1f0
rt_mutex_slowlock+0xa9/0x1e0
rt_mutex_lock+0x29/0x30
rcu_boost_kthread+0x127/0x3c0
kthread+0x104/0x140
? rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp+0x90/0x90
? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Code: f0 00 0f 92 c0 84 c0 74 14 48 8b 05 34 74 c5 00 be fd 00 00 00 ff 90 a0 00 00 00 5d c3 89 fe 48 c7 c7 a0 c6 fc b9 e8 d5 b5 06 00 <0f> ff 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 05 a2 d1 13 02 85 c0 75 38 55 48
But the target task's priority has already been adjusted, so the only
purpose of switched_to_rt() invoking resched_curr() is to wake up the
CPU running some task that needs to be preempted by the boosted task.
But the CPU is offline, which presumably means that the task must be
migrated to some other CPU, and that this other CPU will undertake any
needed preemption at the time of migration. Because the runqueue lock
is held when resched_curr() is invoked, we know that the boosted task
cannot go anywhere, so it is not necessary to invoke resched_curr()
in this particular case.
This commit therefore makes switched_to_rt() refrain from invoking
resched_curr() when the target CPU is offline.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/rt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -2218,7 +2218,7 @@ static void switched_to_rt(struct rq *rq
if (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 && rq->rt.overloaded)
queue_push_tasks(rq);
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
- if (p->prio < rq->curr->prio)
+ if (p->prio < rq->curr->prio && cpu_online(cpu_of(rq)))
resched_curr(rq);
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/sched-stop-resched_cpu-from-sending-ipis-to-offline-cpus.patch
queue-4.14/sched-stop-switched_to_rt-from-sending-ipis-to-offline-cpus.patch
queue-4.14/locking-locktorture-fix-num-reader-writer-corner-cases.patch
queue-4.14/rcutorture-configinit-fix-build-directory-error-message.patch