Re: system hung up when offlining CPUs

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, YASUAKI ISHIMATSU wrote:
> On 09/13/2017 09:33 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> Question - "what happens once __cpu_disable is called and some of the queued
> >> interrupt has affinity to that particular CPU ?"
> >> I assume ideally those pending/queued Interrupt should be migrated to
> >> remaining online CPUs. It should not be unhandled if we want to avoid such
> >> IO timeout.
> > 
> > Can you please provide the following information, before and after
> > offlining the last CPU in the affinity set:
> > 
> > # cat /proc/irq/$IRQNUM/smp_affinity_list
> > # cat /proc/irq/$IRQNUM/effective_affinity
> > # cat /sys/kernel/debug/irq/irqs/$IRQNUM
> > 
> > The last one requires: CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS=y
> 
> Here are one irq's info of megasas:
> 
> - Before offline CPU
> /proc/irq/70/smp_affinity_list
> 24-29
> 
> /proc/irq/70/effective_affinity
> 00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,3f000000
> 
> /sys/kernel/debug/irq/irqs/70
> handler:  handle_edge_irq
> status:   0x00004000
> istate:   0x00000000
> ddepth:   0
> wdepth:   0
> dstate:   0x00609200
>             IRQD_ACTIVATED
>             IRQD_IRQ_STARTED
>             IRQD_MOVE_PCNTXT
>             IRQD_AFFINITY_SET
>             IRQD_AFFINITY_MANAGED

So this uses managed affinity, which means that once the last CPU in the
affinity mask goes offline, the interrupt is shut down by the irq core
code, which is the case:

> dstate:   0x00a39000
>             IRQD_IRQ_DISABLED
>             IRQD_IRQ_MASKED
>             IRQD_MOVE_PCNTXT
>             IRQD_AFFINITY_SET
>             IRQD_AFFINITY_MANAGED
>             IRQD_MANAGED_SHUTDOWN  <---------------

So the irq core code works as expected, but something in the
driver/scsi/block stack seems to fiddle with that shut down queue.

I only can tell about the inner workings of the irq code, but I have no
clue about the rest.

Thanks,

	tglx