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Migrating tasks to offline CPUs is a pretty big fail, warn about it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170907150614.094206976@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The load balancer applies cpu_active_mask to whatever sched_domains it
finds, however in the case of active_balance there is a hole between
setting rq->{active_balance,push_cpu} and running the stop_machine
work doing the actual migration.
The @push_cpu can go offline in this window, which would result in us
moving a task onto a dead cpu, which is a fairly bad thing.
Double check the active mask before the stop work does the migration.
CPU0 CPU1
<SoftIRQ>
stop_machine(takedown_cpu)
load_balance() cpu_stopper_thread()
... work = multi_cpu_stop
stop_one_cpu_nowait( /* wait for CPU0 */
.func = active_load_balance_cpu_stop
);
</SoftIRQ>
cpu_stopper_thread()
work = multi_cpu_stop
/* sync with CPU1 */
take_cpu_down()
<idle>
play_dead();
work = active_load_balance_cpu_stop
set_task_cpu(p, CPU1); /* oops!! */
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170907150614.044460912@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On CPU hot unplug, when parking the last kthread we'll try and
schedule into idle to kill the CPU. This last schedule can (and does)
trigger newidle balance because at this point the sched domains are
still up because of commit:
77d1dfda0e79 ("sched/topology, cpuset: Avoid spurious/wrong domain rebuilds")
Obviously pulling tasks to an already offline CPU is a bad idea, and
all balancing operations _should_ be subject to cpu_active_mask, make
it so.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: 77d1dfda0e79 ("sched/topology, cpuset: Avoid spurious/wrong domain rebuilds")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170907150613.994135806@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Work around kernel-doc warning ('*' in Sphinx doc means "emphasis"):
../kernel/sched/fair.c:7584: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f18b30f9-6251-6d86-9d44-16501e386891@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cpusets vs. suspend-resume is _completely_ broken. And it got noticed
because it now resulted in non-cpuset usage breaking too.
On suspend cpuset_cpu_inactive() doesn't call into
cpuset_update_active_cpus() because it doesn't want to move tasks about,
there is no need, all tasks are frozen and won't run again until after
we've resumed everything.
But this means that when we finally do call into
cpuset_update_active_cpus() after resuming the last frozen cpu in
cpuset_cpu_active(), the top_cpuset will not have any difference with
the cpu_active_mask and this it will not in fact do _anything_.
So the cpuset configuration will not be restored. This was largely
hidden because we would unconditionally create identity domains and
mobile users would not in fact use cpusets much. And servers what do use
cpusets tend to not suspend-resume much.
An addition problem is that we'd not in fact wait for the cpuset work to
finish before resuming the tasks, allowing spurious migrations outside
of the specified domains.
Fix the rebuild by introducing cpuset_force_rebuild() and fix the
ordering with cpuset_wait_for_hotplug().
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: deb7aa308ea2 ("cpuset: reorganize CPU / memory hotplug handling")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170907091338.orwxrqkbfkki3c24@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Chris Wilson reported that the SMT balance rules got the +1 on the
wrong side, resulting in a bias towards the current LLC; which the
load-balancer would then try and undo.
Reported-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 90001d67be2f ("sched/fair: Fix wake_affine() for !NUMA_BALANCING")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170906105131.gqjmaextmn3u6tj2@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 apic updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides:
- Cleanup of the IDT management including the removal of the extra
tracing IDT. A first step to cleanup the vector management code.
- The removal of the paravirt op adjust_exception_frame. This is a
XEN specific issue, but merged through this branch to avoid nasty
merge collisions
- Prevent dmesg spam about the TSC DEADLINE bug, when the CPU has
disabled the TSC DEADLINE timer in CPUID.
- Adjust a debug message in the ioapic code to print out the
information correctly"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
x86/idt: Fix the X86_TRAP_BP gate
x86/xen: Get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame
x86/eisa: Add missing include
x86/idt: Remove superfluous ALIGNment
x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature
x86/idt: Remove the tracing IDT leftovers
x86/idt: Hide set_intr_gate()
x86/idt: Simplify alloc_intr_gate()
x86/idt: Deinline setup functions
x86/idt: Remove unused functions/inlines
x86/idt: Move interrupt gate initialization to IDT code
x86/idt: Move APIC gate initialization to tables
x86/idt: Move regular trap init to tables
x86/idt: Move IST stack based traps to table init
x86/idt: Move debug stack init to table based
x86/idt: Switch early trap init to IDT tables
x86/idt: Prepare for table based init
x86/idt: Move early IDT setup out of 32-bit asm
x86/idt: Move early IDT handler setup to IDT code
x86/idt: Consolidate IDT invalidation
...
Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
Monitoring (CQM) facility.
The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
horrible.
After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.
As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
management facility with a consistent user interface"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
...
Andrei Vagin reported a CRIU regression and bisected it back to:
90f6225fba0c ("x86/idt: Move IST stack based traps to table init")
This table init conversion loses the system-gate property of X86_TRAP_BP
and erroneously moves it from DPL3 to DPL0.
Fix it.
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvlasenk@redhat.com
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: brgerst@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: tip-bot for Jacob Shin <tipbot@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901082630.xvyi5bwk6etmppqc@gmail.com
Pull CPU hotplug fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix to handle the removal of the first dynamic CPU hotplug
state correctly"
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
smp/hotplug: Handle removal correctly in cpuhp_store_callbacks()
Errata list is included in this document:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/6th-gen-x-series-spec-update.pdf
with more details in:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/scalable/xeon-scalable-spec-update.html
But the tl;dr summary (using tags from first of the documents) is:
SKZ4 MBM does not accurately track write bandwidth
SKZ17 CMT counters may not count accurately
SKZ18 CAT may not restrict cacheline allocation under certain conditions
SKZ19 MBM counters may undercount
Disable all these features on Skylake models. Users who understand the
errata may re-enable using boot command line options.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3aea0a3bae219062c812668bd9b7b8f1a25003ba.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When running as Xen pv-guest the exception frame on the stack contains
%r11 and %rcx additional to the other data pushed by the processor.
Instead of having a paravirt op being called for each exception type
prepend the Xen specific code to each exception entry. When running as
Xen pv-guest just use the exception entry with prepended instructions,
otherwise use the entry without the Xen specific code.
[ tglx: Merged through tip to avoid ugly merge conflict ]
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831174249.26853-1-jg@pfupf.net
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The interrupt subsystem delivers this time:
- Refactoring of the GIC-V3 driver to prepare for the GIC-V4 support
- Initial GIC-V4 support
- Consolidation of the FSL MSI support
- Utilize the effective affinity interface in various ARM irqchip
drivers
- Yet another interrupt chip driver (UniPhier AIDET)
- Bulk conversion of the irq chip driver to use %pOF
- The usual small fixes and improvements all over the place"
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits)
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Add MSI affinity support
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Add LS1043a v1.1 MSI support
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Add LS1046a MSI support
arm64: dts: ls1046a: Add MSI dts node
arm64: dts: ls1043a: Share all MSIs
arm: dts: ls1021a: Share all MSIs
arm64: dts: ls1043a: Fix typo of MSI compatible string
arm: dts: ls1021a: Fix typo of MSI compatible string
irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Fix typo of MSI compatible strings
irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2: Use correct I/O accessors for irq_fwd_mask
irqchip/mmp: Make mmp_intc_conf const
irqchip/gic: Make irq_chip const
irqchip/gic-v3: Advertise GICv4 support to KVM
irqchip/gic-v4: Enable low-level GICv4 operations
irqchip/gic-v4: Add some basic documentation
irqchip/gic-v4: Add VLPI configuration interface
irqchip/gic-v4: Add VPE command interface
irqchip/gic-v4: Add per-VM VPE domain creation
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Set implementation defined bit to enable VLPIs
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Allow doorbell interrupts to be injected/cleared
...
If cpuhp_store_callbacks() is called for CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN or
CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN, which are the indicators for dynamically allocated
states, then cpuhp_store_callbacks() allocates a new dynamic state. The
first allocation in each range returns CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN or
CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN.
If cpuhp_remove_state() is invoked for one of these states, then there is
no protection against the allocation mechanism. So the removal, which
should clear the callbacks and the name, gets a new state assigned and
clears that one.
As a consequence the state which should be cleared stays initialized. A
consecutive CPU hotplug operation dereferences the state callbacks and
accesses either freed or reused memory, resulting in crashes.
Add a protection against this by checking the name argument for NULL. If
it's NULL it's a removal. If not, it's an allocation.
[ tglx: Added a comment and massaged changelog ]
Fixes: 5b7aa87e0482 ("cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface")
Signed-off-by: Ethan Barnes <ethan.barnes@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.or>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@mit.edu>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.d>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/DM2PR04MB398242FC7776D603D9F99C894A60@DM2PR04MB398.namprd04.prod.outlook.com
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