6.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
commit 2b8272ff4a70b866106ae13c36be7ecbef5d5da2 upstream.
Xiongfeng reported and debugged a self deadlock of the task which initiates and controls a CPU hot-unplug operation vs. the CFS bandwidth timer.
CPU1 CPU2
T1 sets cfs_quota starts hrtimer cfs_bandwidth 'period_timer' T1 is migrated to CPU2 T1 initiates offlining of CPU1 Hotplug operation starts ... 'period_timer' expires and is re-enqueued on CPU1 ... take_cpu_down() CPU1 shuts down and does not handle timers anymore. They have to be migrated in the post dead hotplug steps by the control task.
T1 runs the post dead offline operation T1 is scheduled out T1 waits for 'period_timer' to expire
T1 waits there forever if it is scheduled out before it can execute the hrtimer offline callback hrtimers_dead_cpu().
Cure this by delegating the hotplug control operation to a worker thread on an online CPU. This takes the initiating user space task, which might be affected by the bandwidth timer, completely out of the picture.
Reported-by: Xiongfeng Wang wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Tested-by: Yu Liao liaoyu15@huawei.com Acked-by: Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8e785777-03aa-99e1-d20e-e956f5685be6@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h6oqdq0i.ffs@tglx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/cpu.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -1215,8 +1215,22 @@ out: return ret; }
+struct cpu_down_work { + unsigned int cpu; + enum cpuhp_state target; +}; + +static long __cpu_down_maps_locked(void *arg) +{ + struct cpu_down_work *work = arg; + + return _cpu_down(work->cpu, 0, work->target); +} + static int cpu_down_maps_locked(unsigned int cpu, enum cpuhp_state target) { + struct cpu_down_work work = { .cpu = cpu, .target = target, }; + /* * If the platform does not support hotplug, report it explicitly to * differentiate it from a transient offlining failure. @@ -1225,7 +1239,15 @@ static int cpu_down_maps_locked(unsigned return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (cpu_hotplug_disabled) return -EBUSY; - return _cpu_down(cpu, 0, target); + + /* + * Ensure that the control task does not run on the to be offlined + * CPU to prevent a deadlock against cfs_b->period_timer. + */ + cpu = cpumask_any_but(cpu_online_mask, cpu); + if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) + return -EBUSY; + return work_on_cpu(cpu, __cpu_down_maps_locked, &work); }
static int cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, enum cpuhp_state target)