[PATCH] tick/broadcast: Use for_each_cpu() specially on UP kernels

From: Dexuan Cui
Date: Tue May 15 2018 - 15:53:16 EST



for_each_cpu() unintuitively reports CPU0 as set independent of the actual
cpumask content on UP kernels. This causes an unexpected PIT interrupt
storm on a UP kernel running in an SMP virtual machine on Hyper-V, and as
a result, the virtual machine can suffer from a strange random delay of 1~20
minutes during boot-up, and sometimes it can hang forever.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/9/63
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/15/747
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---

Some part of the changelog and comments are copied from
Thomas Gleixner's 115ef3b7e61a ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Cure UP damage") :-)

kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index b398c2e..2fc59ad 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -612,6 +612,14 @@ static void tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev)
now = ktime_get();
/* Find all expired events */
for_each_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask) {
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
+ /*
+ * Required because for_each_cpu() reports unconditionally
+ * CPU0 as set on UP kernels.
+ */
+ if (cpumask_empty(tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask))
+ break;
+#endif
td = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_device, cpu);
if (td->evtdev->next_event <= now) {
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
--
2.7.4