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 4.4-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: sched-stop-switched_to_rt-from-sending-ipis-to-offline-cpus.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 Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: "Paul E. McKenney" paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/sched/rt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c @@ -2144,7 +2144,7 @@ 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com are
queue-4.4/sched-stop-resched_cpu-from-sending-ipis-to-offline-cpus.patch queue-4.4/sched-stop-switched_to_rt-from-sending-ipis-to-offline-cpus.patch queue-4.4/rcutorture-configinit-fix-build-directory-error-message.patch