This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpuidle: powernv: Pass correct drv->cpumask for registration
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: cpuidle-powernv-pass-correct-drv-cpumask-for-registration.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 10:35:49 CET 2017
From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:52:46 +0530 Subject: cpuidle: powernv: Pass correct drv->cpumask for registration
From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Upstream commit 293d264f13cbde328d5477f49e3103edbc1dc191 ]
drv->cpumask defaults to cpu_possible_mask in __cpuidle_driver_init(). On PowerNV platform cpu_present could be less than cpu_possible in cases where firmware detects the cpu, but it is not available to the OS. When CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, such cpus are not hotplugable at runtime and hence we skip creating cpu_device.
This breaks cpuidle on powernv where register_cpu() is not called for cpus in cpu_possible_mask that cannot be hot-added at runtime.
Trying cpuidle_register_device() on cpu without cpu_device will cause crash like this:
cpu 0xf: Vector: 380 (Data SLB Access) at [c000000ff1503490] pc: c00000000022c8bc: string+0x34/0x60 lr: c00000000022ed78: vsnprintf+0x284/0x42c sp: c000000ff1503710 msr: 9000000000009033 dar: 6000000060000000 current = 0xc000000ff1480000 paca = 0xc00000000fe82d00 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 1, comm = swapper/8 Linux version 4.11.0-rc2 (sv@sagarika) (gcc version 4.9.4 (Buildroot 2017.02-00004-gc28573e) ) #15 SMP Fri Mar 17 19:32:02 IST 2017 enter ? for help [link register ] c00000000022ed78 vsnprintf+0x284/0x42c [c000000ff1503710] c00000000022ebb8 vsnprintf+0xc4/0x42c (unreliable) [c000000ff1503800] c00000000022ef40 vscnprintf+0x20/0x44 [c000000ff1503830] c0000000000ab61c vprintk_emit+0x94/0x2cc [c000000ff15038a0] c0000000000acc9c vprintk_func+0x60/0x74 [c000000ff15038c0] c000000000619694 printk+0x38/0x4c [c000000ff15038e0] c000000000224950 kobject_get+0x40/0x60 [c000000ff1503950] c00000000022507c kobject_add_internal+0x60/0x2c4 [c000000ff15039e0] c000000000225350 kobject_init_and_add+0x70/0x78 [c000000ff1503a60] c00000000053c288 cpuidle_add_sysfs+0x9c/0xe0 [c000000ff1503ae0] c00000000053aeac cpuidle_register_device+0xd4/0x12c [c000000ff1503b30] c00000000053b108 cpuidle_register+0x98/0xcc [c000000ff1503bc0] c00000000085eaf0 powernv_processor_idle_init+0x140/0x1e0 [c000000ff1503c60] c00000000000cd60 do_one_initcall+0xc0/0x15c [c000000ff1503d20] c000000000833e84 kernel_init_freeable+0x1a0/0x25c [c000000ff1503dc0] c00000000000d478 kernel_init+0x24/0x12c [c000000ff1503e30] c00000000000b564 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x78
This patch fixes the bug by passing correct cpumask from powernv-cpuidle driver.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com Acked-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au [ rjw: Comment massage ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c @@ -160,6 +160,24 @@ static int powernv_cpuidle_driver_init(v drv->state_count += 1; }
+ /* + * On the PowerNV platform cpu_present may be less than cpu_possible in + * cases when firmware detects the CPU, but it is not available to the + * OS. If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, then such CPUs are not hotplugable at + * run time and hence cpu_devices are not created for those CPUs by the + * generic topology_init(). + * + * drv->cpumask defaults to cpu_possible_mask in + * __cpuidle_driver_init(). This breaks cpuidle on PowerNV where + * cpu_devices are not created for CPUs in cpu_possible_mask that + * cannot be hot-added later at run time. + * + * Trying cpuidle_register_device() on a CPU without a cpu_device is + * incorrect, so pass a correct CPU mask to the generic cpuidle driver. + */ + + drv->cpumask = (struct cpumask *)cpu_present_mask; + return 0; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com are
queue-4.4/cpuidle-validate-cpu_dev-in-cpuidle_add_sysfs.patch queue-4.4/cpuidle-powernv-pass-correct-drv-cpumask-for-registration.patch