[PATCH 5.15 2/2] rcu: Prevent expedited GP from enabling tick on offline CPU

From: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2023 - 17:58:54 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 147f04b14adde831eb4a0a1e378667429732f9e8 ]

If an RCU expedited grace period starts just when a CPU is in the process
of going offline, so that the outgoing CPU has completed its pass through
stop-machine but has not yet completed its final dive into the idle loop,
RCU will attempt to enable that CPU's scheduling-clock tick via a call
to tick_dep_set_cpu(). For this to happen, that CPU has to have been
online when the expedited grace period completed its CPU-selection phase.

This is pointless: The outgoing CPU has interrupts disabled, so it cannot
take a scheduling-clock tick anyway. In addition, the tick_dep_set_cpu()
function's eventual call to irq_work_queue_on() will splat as follows:

smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 124 at kernel/irq_work.c:95
+irq_work_queue_on+0x57/0x60
Modules linked in:
CPU: 6 PID: 124 Comm: kworker/6:2 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc1+ #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
+rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: rcu_gp wait_rcu_exp_gp
RIP: 0010:irq_work_queue_on+0x57/0x60
Code: 8b 05 1d c7 ea 62 a9 00 00 f0 00 75 21 4c 89 ce 44 89 c7 e8
+9b 37 fa ff ba 01 00 00 00 89 d0 c3 4c 89 cf e8 3b ff ff ff eb ee <0f> 0b eb b7
+0f 0b eb db 90 48 c7 c0 98 2a 02 00 65 48 03 05 91
6f
RSP: 0000:ffffb12cc038fe48 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000005208 RCX: 0000000000000020
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff9ad01f45a680
RBP: 000000000004c990 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff9ad01f45a680
R10: ffffb12cc0317db0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000fffecee8
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000026980 R15: ffffffff9e53ae00
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9ad01f580000(0000)
+knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000de0c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
tick_nohz_dep_set_cpu+0x59/0x70
rcu_exp_wait_wake+0x54e/0x870
? sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x1fc/0x390
process_one_work+0x1ef/0x3c0
? process_one_work+0x3c0/0x3c0
worker_thread+0x28/0x3c0
? process_one_work+0x3c0/0x3c0
kthread+0x115/0x140
? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
---[ end trace c5bf75eb6aa80bc6 ]---

This commit therefore avoids invoking tick_dep_set_cpu() on offlined
CPUs to limit both futility and false-positive splats.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
index f46c0c1a5eb3..407941a2903b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
@@ -507,7 +507,10 @@ static void synchronize_rcu_expedited_wait(void)
if (rdp->rcu_forced_tick_exp)
continue;
rdp->rcu_forced_tick_exp = true;
- tick_dep_set_cpu(cpu, TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU_EXP);
+ preempt_disable();
+ if (cpu_online(cpu))
+ tick_dep_set_cpu(cpu, TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU_EXP);
+ preempt_enable();
}
}
j = READ_ONCE(jiffies_till_first_fqs);
--
2.42.0.rc1.204.g551eb34607-goog