Re: [PATCH 4.14 088/157] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Dont bind LPI to unavailable NUMA node

[Marc Zyngier]

On 01/07/18 17:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit c1797b11a09c8323c92b074fd48b89a936c991d0 upstream.
> 
> On a NUMA system, if an ITS is local to an offline node, the ITS driver may
> pick an offline CPU to bind the LPI.  In this case, pick an online CPU (and
> the first one will do).
> 
> But on some systems, binding an LPI to non-local node CPU may cause
> deadlock (see Cavium erratum 23144).  In this case, just fail the activate
> and return an error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622095254.5906-5-marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -2221,7 +2221,14 @@ static void its_irq_domain_activate(stru
>  		cpu_mask = cpumask_of_node(its_dev->its->numa_node);
>  
>  	/* Bind the LPI to the first possible CPU */
> -	cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_mask);
> +	cpu = cpumask_first_and(cpu_mask, cpu_online_mask);
> +	if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
> +		if (its_dev->its->flags & ITS_FLAGS_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23144)
> +			return -EINVAL;

As reported by the kbuild robot, you need to drop the return value here
(the prototype was changed post 4.14). A WARN_ON() could be useful to
detect the case though.

Thanks,

	M.
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