Re: [PATCH] ACPI, cpu hotplug: move try_offline_node() after acpi_unmap_lsapic()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Aug 11 2013 - 16:32:20 EST


On Friday, August 09, 2013 08:11:19 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 01:29 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, August 09, 2013 04:16:56 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 15:28 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> > > > On 08/07/2013 12:56 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 19:11 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> > > > >> try_offline_node() checks that all cpus related with removed node have been
> > > > >> removed by using cpu_present_bits. If all cpus related with removed node have
> > > > >> been removed, try_offline_node() clears the node information.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> But try_offline_node() called from acpi_processor_remove() never clears
> > > > >> the node information. For disabling cpu_present_bits, acpi_unmap_lsapic()
> > > > >> need be called. But acpi_unmap_lsapic() is called after try_offline_node()
> > > > >> runs. So when try_offline_node() runs, the cpu's cpu_present_bits is always
> > > > >> set.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> This patch moves try_offline_node() after acpi_unmap_lsapic().
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu<isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > The change looks good to me.
> > > > >
> > > > > Acked-by: Toshi Kani<toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > BTW, do you know why try_offline_node() has to use stop_machine()?
> > > >
> > > > try_offline_node() is used to check if the node could be hot-removed
> > > > after each memory or cpu hot-remove operation.
> > > >
> > > > In memory hot-remove path, we have lock_memory_hotplug() to series all
> > > > the memory hot-remove options.
> > > >
> > > > But when doing cpu hot-remove,
> > > >
> > > > acpi_processor_remove()
> > > > |->try_offline_node()
> > > >
> > > > There is no lock to protect it. I think, when we are going to hot-remove
> > > > a node, others should not do any memory or cpu hotplug operation. In memory
> > > > hotplug path, we have lock_memory_hotplug(). But in cpu hotplug path, I
> > > > didn't find any lock. So we used stop_machine() to call check_cpu_on_node().
> > > > If we find any cpu still present, we return and do not remove the node.
> > >
> > > CPU/Memory hotplug operations and sysfs eject are serialized with
> > > acpi_os_hotplug_execute(). CPU online/offline is protected by
> > > cpu_hotplug_[begin|done]() and [get|put]_online_cpus(). But, yes,
> > > online/offline and hotplug operations are not serialized. I tried to
> > > serialize them before, but that framework was not well received.
> >
> > What about lock_device_hotplug()? It is taken by both online/offline and
> > the ACPI hotplug code, isn't it?
>
> Oh, that's right! I forgot about this one. Yes, lock_device_hotplug()
> nicely protects online/offline and hotplug operations. :-)
>
> > > Anyway, it looks to me that cpu_up()->mem_online_node() path can race
> > > with try_offline_node().
> >
> > It can in principle, but I'm not sure if there's a way to trigger that
> > race. Do you have an example?
>
> With lock_device_hotplug(), I agree that we do not have this race
> condition -- cpu_up() may not run while other hotplug is running.
> store_online() will be blocked at lock_device_hotplug() in such case.
> When store_online() acquired the lock, this CPU may have been deleted.
> So, we still need to make sure that this case is handled properly.

Yes.

> I suppose sysfs keeps *dev valid with ref_count (Is that right?).

Yes, it does.

> I think cpu_up() needs to check with cpu_present(), not cpu_possible(), at
> the top. Otherwise, cpu_to_node(cpu) may return NUMA_NO_NODE (-1), which is
> probably not a good value for node_online(nid).

We do cpu_to_node(cpuid) in cpu_subsys_online() before that, so maybe
it's better to check the result already there and bail out if that's
negative?

Something like the patch below.

Thanks,
Rafael


---
drivers/base/cpu.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/base/cpu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -43,11 +43,14 @@ static int __ref cpu_subsys_online(struc
struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, dev);
int cpuid = dev->id;
int from_nid, to_nid;
- int ret;
+ int ret = -ENODEV;

cpu_hotplug_driver_lock();

from_nid = cpu_to_node(cpuid);
+ if (from_nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+ goto out;
+
ret = cpu_up(cpuid);
/*
* When hot adding memory to memoryless node and enabling a cpu
@@ -57,6 +60,7 @@ static int __ref cpu_subsys_online(struc
if (from_nid != to_nid)
change_cpu_under_node(cpu, from_nid, to_nid);

+ out:
cpu_hotplug_driver_unlock();
return ret;
}

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