[RFC][PATCH] sched: Start stopper early

[Peter Zijlstra]

Hi,

So Heiko reported some 'interesting' fail where stop_two_cpus() got
stuck in multi_cpu_stop() with one cpu waiting for another that never
happens.

It _looks_ like the 'other' cpu isn't running and the current best
theory is that we race on cpu-up and get the stop_two_cpus() call in
before the stopper task is running.

This _is_ possible because we set 'online && active' _before_ we do the
smpboot_unpark thing because of ONLINE notifier order.

The below test patch manually starts the stopper task early.

It boots and hotplugs a cpu on my test box so its not insta broken.

---
 kernel/sched/core.c   |    7 ++++++-
 kernel/stop_machine.c |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 1764a0f..9a56ef7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5542,14 +5542,19 @@ static void set_cpu_rq_start_time(void)
 	rq->age_stamp = sched_clock_cpu(cpu);
 }
 
+extern void cpu_stopper_unpark(unsigned int cpu);
+
 static int sched_cpu_active(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 				      unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
 {
+	int cpu = (long)hcpu;
+
 	switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
 	case CPU_STARTING:
 		set_cpu_rq_start_time();
 		return NOTIFY_OK;
 	case CPU_ONLINE:
+		cpu_stopper_unpark(cpu);
 		/*
 		 * At this point a starting CPU has marked itself as online via
 		 * set_cpu_online(). But it might not yet have marked itself
@@ -5558,7 +5563,7 @@ static int sched_cpu_active(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 		 * Thus, fall-through and help the starting CPU along.
 		 */
 	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
-		set_cpu_active((long)hcpu, true);
+		set_cpu_active(cpu, true);
 		return NOTIFY_OK;
 	default:
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index 12484e5..c674371 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -496,6 +496,11 @@ static struct smp_hotplug_thread cpu_stop_threads = {
 	.selfparking		= true,
 };
 
+void cpu_stopper_unpark(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	kthread_unpark(per_cpu(cpu_stopper.thread, cpu));
+}
+
 static int __init cpu_stop_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu;
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