* C?dric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx> [2021-06-29 15:15:42]: > On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at > runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged > CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups. > > We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because > this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is > being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes > at startup. Thanks for quickly coming up with the fix. > > Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node") > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.13 > Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes > are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are > not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing > the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs. > > Version 1.7 seems immune. > > --- > arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ---- > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c > index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c > @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void) > struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node]; > struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node }; > > - /* Skip nodes without CPUs */ > - if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node))) > - continue; > - > /* > * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node. > * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning, > -- > 2.31.1 > -- Thanks and Regards Srikar Dronamraju