From: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 53e87e3cdc155f20c3417b689df8d2ac88d79576 ]
When at least one CPU runs in nohz_full mode, a dedicated timekeeper CPU is guaranteed to stay online and to never stop its tick.
Meanwhile on some rare case, the dedicated timekeeper may be running with interrupts disabled for a while, such as in stop_machine.
If jiffies stop being updated, a nohz_full CPU may end up endlessly programming the next tick in the past, taking the last jiffies update monotonic timestamp as a stale base, resulting in an tick storm.
Here is a scenario where it matters:
0) CPU 0 is the timekeeper and CPU 1 a nohz_full CPU.
1) A stop machine callback is queued to execute somewhere.
2) CPU 0 reaches MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ while CPU 1 is still in MULTI_STOP_PREPARE. Hence CPU 0 can't do its timekeeping duty. CPU 1 can still take IRQs.
3) CPU 1 receives an IRQ which queues a timer callback one jiffy forward.
4) On IRQ exit, CPU 1 schedules the tick one jiffy forward, taking last_jiffies_update as a base. But last_jiffies_update hasn't been updated for 2 jiffies since the timekeeper has interrupts disabled.
5) clockevents_program_event(), which relies on ktime_get(), observes that the expiration is in the past and therefore programs the min delta event on the clock.
6) The tick fires immediately, goto 3)
7) Tick storm, the nohz_full CPU is drown and takes ages to reach MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ, which is the only way out of this situation.
Solve this with unconditionally updating jiffies if the value is stale on nohz_full IRQ entry. IRQs and other disturbances are expected to be rare enough on nohz_full for the unconditional call to ktime_get() to actually matter.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026141055.57358-2-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/softirq.c | 3 ++- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ void irq_enter_rcu(void) { __irq_enter_raw();
- if (is_idle_task(current) && (irq_count() == HARDIRQ_OFFSET)) + if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()) || + (is_idle_task(current) && (irq_count() == HARDIRQ_OFFSET))) tick_irq_enter();
account_hardirq_enter(current); --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -1420,6 +1420,13 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_irq_enter(v now = ktime_get(); if (ts->idle_active) tick_nohz_stop_idle(ts, now); + /* + * If all CPUs are idle. We may need to update a stale jiffies value. + * Note nohz_full is a special case: a timekeeper is guaranteed to stay + * alive but it might be busy looping with interrupts disabled in some + * rare case (typically stop machine). So we must make sure we have a + * last resort. + */ if (ts->tick_stopped) tick_nohz_update_jiffies(now); }