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authorChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>2013-08-06 15:12:19 -0700
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2013-08-20 10:13:05 -0400
commitfc78d343fa74514f6fd117b5ef4cd27e4ac30236 (patch)
tree158f6f2d09ed79cb975de74df7ce47b32134699f /arch
parent4704fe4f03a5ab27e3c36184af85d5000e0f8a48 (diff)
xen/smp: initialize IPI vectors before marking CPU online
An older PVHVM guest (v3.0 based) crashed during vCPU hot-plug with: kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events.c:1328! RCU has detected that a CPU has not entered a quiescent state within the grace period. It needs to send the CPU a reschedule IPI if it is not offline. rcu_implicit_offline_qs() does this check: /* * If the CPU is offline, it is in a quiescent state. We can * trust its state not to change because interrupts are disabled. */ if (cpu_is_offline(rdp->cpu)) { rdp->offline_fqs++; return 1; } Else the CPU is online. Send it a reschedule IPI. The CPU is in the middle of being hot-plugged and has been marked online (!cpu_is_offline()). See start_secondary(): set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), true); ... per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE; start_secondary() then waits for the CPU bringing up the hot-plugged CPU to mark it as active: /* * Wait until the cpu which brought this one up marked it * online before enabling interrupts. If we don't do that then * we can end up waking up the softirq thread before this cpu * reached the active state, which makes the scheduler unhappy * and schedule the softirq thread on the wrong cpu. This is * only observable with forced threaded interrupts, but in * theory it could also happen w/o them. It's just way harder * to achieve. */ while (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_active_mask)) cpu_relax(); /* enable local interrupts */ local_irq_enable(); The CPU being hot-plugged will be marked active after it has been fully initialized by the CPU managing the hot-plug. In the Xen PVHVM case xen_smp_intr_init() is called to set up the hot-plugged vCPU's XEN_RESCHEDULE_VECTOR. The hot-plugging CPU is marked online, not marked active and does not have its IPI vectors set up. rcu_implicit_offline_qs() sees the hot-plugging cpu is !cpu_is_offline() and tries to send it a reschedule IPI: This will lead to: kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events.c:1328! xen_send_IPI_one() xen_smp_send_reschedule() rcu_implicit_offline_qs() rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() force_qs_rnp() force_quiescent_state() __rcu_process_callbacks() rcu_process_callbacks() __do_softirq() call_softirq() do_softirq() irq_exit() xen_evtchn_do_upcall() because xen_send_IPI_one() will attempt to use an uninitialized IRQ for the XEN_RESCHEDULE_VECTOR. There is at least one other place that has caused the same crash: xen_smp_send_reschedule() wake_up_idle_cpu() add_timer_on() clocksource_watchdog() call_timer_fn() run_timer_softirq() __do_softirq() call_softirq() do_softirq() irq_exit() xen_evtchn_do_upcall() xen_hvm_callback_vector() clocksource_watchdog() uses cpu_online_mask to pick the next CPU to handle a watchdog timer: /* * Cycle through CPUs to check if the CPUs stay synchronized * to each other. */ next_cpu = cpumask_next(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask); if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask); watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL; add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu); This resulted in an attempt to send an IPI to a hot-plugging CPU that had not initialized its reschedule vector. One option would be to make the RCU code check to not check for CPU offline but for CPU active. As becoming active is done after a CPU is online (in older kernels). But Srivatsa pointed out that "the cpu_active vs cpu_online ordering has been completely reworked - in the online path, cpu_active is set *before* cpu_online, and also, in the cpu offline path, the cpu_active bit is reset in the CPU_DYING notification instead of CPU_DOWN_PREPARE." Drilling in this the bring-up path: "[brought up CPU].. send out a CPU_STARTING notification, and in response to that, the scheduler sets the CPU in the cpu_active_mask. Again, this mask is better left to the scheduler alone, since it has the intelligence to use it judiciously." The conclusion was that: " 1. At the IPI sender side: It is incorrect to send an IPI to an offline CPU (cpu not present in the cpu_online_mask). There are numerous places where we check this and warn/complain. 2. At the IPI receiver side: It is incorrect to let the world know of our presence (by setting ourselves in global bitmasks) until our initialization steps are complete to such an extent that we can handle the consequences (such as receiving interrupts without crashing the sender etc.) " (from Srivatsa) As the native code enables the interrupts at some point we need to be able to service them. In other words a CPU must have valid IPI vectors if it has been marked online. It doesn't need to handle the IPI (interrupts may be disabled) but needs to have valid IPI vectors because another CPU may find it in cpu_online_mask and attempt to send it an IPI. This patch will change the order of the Xen vCPU bring-up functions so that Xen vectors have been set up before start_secondary() is called. It also will not continue to bring up a Xen vCPU if xen_smp_intr_init() fails to initialize it. Orabug 13823853 Signed-off-by Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/smp.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
index 37fbe71795c..34ed6edf85d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
@@ -686,8 +686,15 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
static int __cpuinit xen_hvm_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
{
int rc;
- rc = native_cpu_up(cpu, tidle);
- WARN_ON (xen_smp_intr_init(cpu));
+ /*
+ * xen_smp_intr_init() needs to run before native_cpu_up()
+ * so that IPI vectors are set up on the booting CPU before
+ * it is marked online in native_cpu_up().
+ */
+ rc = xen_smp_intr_init(cpu);
+ WARN_ON(rc);
+ if (!rc)
+ rc = native_cpu_up(cpu, tidle);
return rc;
}