From 46c498c2cdee5efe44f617bcd4f388179be36115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:44:33 +0100 Subject: stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled early commit 14e568e78 (stop_machine: Use smpboot threads) introduced the following regression: Before this commit the stopper enabled bit was set in the online notifier. CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online hotplug_notifier(ONLINE) stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; ... stop_machine() The conversion to smpboot threads moved the enablement to the wakeup path of the parked thread. The majority of users seem to have the following working order: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online unpark_threads() wakeup(stopper[CPU1]) .... stopper thread runs stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; stop_machine() But Konrad and Sander have observed: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online unpark_threads() wakeup(stopper[CPU1]) .... stop_machine() stopper thread runs stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; Now the stop machinery kicks CPU0 into the stop loop, where it gets stuck forever because the queue code saw stopper(CPU1)->enabled == false, so CPU0 waits for CPU1 to enter stomp_machine, but the CPU1 stopper work got discarded due to enabled == false. Add a pre_unpark function to the smpboot thread descriptor and call it before waking the thread. This fixes the problem at hand, but the stop_machine code should be more robust. The stopper->enabled flag smells fishy at best. Thanks to Konrad for going through a loop of debug patches and providing the information to decode this issue. Reported-and-tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Reported-and-tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: Rusty Russell Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1302261843240.22263@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/stop_machine.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c') diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c index 95d178c62d5a..c09f2955ae30 100644 --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static struct smp_hotplug_thread cpu_stop_threads = { .create = cpu_stop_create, .setup = cpu_stop_unpark, .park = cpu_stop_park, - .unpark = cpu_stop_unpark, + .pre_unpark = cpu_stop_unpark, .selfparking = true, }; -- cgit v1.2.3