[PATCH v1] CPU hotplug: active_reader not woken up in some cases - deadlock

[David Hildenbrand]

Commit b2c4623dcd07 ("rcu: More on deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited
grace periods") introduced another problem that can easily be reproduced by
starting/stopping cpus in a loop.

E.g.:
  for i in `seq 5000`; do
      echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
      echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  done

Will result in:
  INFO: task /cpu_start_stop:1 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  Call Trace:
  ([<00000000006a028e>] __schedule+0x406/0x91c)
   [<0000000000130f60>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0xd0/0xd4
   [<0000000000130ff6>] _cpu_up+0x3e/0x1c4
   [<0000000000131232>] cpu_up+0xb6/0xd4
   [<00000000004a5720>] device_online+0x80/0xc0
   [<00000000004a57f0>] online_store+0x90/0xb0
  ...

And a deadlock.

Problem is that if the last ref in put_online_cpus() can't get the
cpu_hotplug.lock the puts_pending count is incremented, but a sleeping active_writer
might never be woken up, therefore never exiting the loop in cpu_hotplug_begin().

This quick fix wakes up the active_writer proactively. The writer already
goes back to sleep if the ref count isn't already down to 0, so this should be
fine.

Can't reproduce the error with this fix.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/cpu.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 90a3d01..e77740583 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ void put_online_cpus(void)
 		return;
 	if (!mutex_trylock(&cpu_hotplug.lock)) {
 		atomic_inc(&cpu_hotplug.puts_pending);
+		/* we might be the last one */
+		if (unlikely(cpu_hotplug.active_writer))
+			wake_up_process(cpu_hotplug.active_writer);
 		cpuhp_lock_release();
 		return;
 	}
-- 
1.8.5.5

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/