Re: [PATCH] x86/hotplug: Silence APIC only after all irq's are migrated

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Aug 14 2020 - 19:25:49 EST


On 8/14/20 2:38 PM, Ashok Raj wrote:
> When offlining CPU's, fixup_irqs() migrates all interrupts away from the

CPUs,

> outgoing CPU to an online CPU. Its always possible the device sent an

It's

> interrupt to the previous CPU destination. Pending interrupt bit in IRR in
> lapic identifies such interrupts. apic_soft_disable() will not capture any

LAPIC

> new interrupts in IRR. This causes interrupts from device to be lost during
> cpu offline. The issue was found when explicitly setting MSI affinity to a

CPU

> CPU and immediately offlining it. It was simple to recreate with a USB
> ethernet device and doing I/O to it while the CPU is offlined. Lost
> interrupts happen even when Interrupt Remapping is enabled.
>
> Current code does apic_soft_disable() before migrating interrupts.
>
> native_cpu_disable()
> {
> ...
> apic_soft_disable();
> cpu_disable_common();
> --> fixup_irqs(); // Too late to capture anything in IRR.
> }
>
> Just fliping the above call sequence seems to hit the IRR checks

flipping

> and the lost interrupt is fixed for both legacy MSI and when
> interrupt remapping is enabled.
>
>
> Fixes: 60dcaad5736f ("x86/hotplug: Silence APIC and NMI when CPU is dead")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/875zdarr4h.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sukumar Ghorai <sukumar.ghorai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Srikanth Nandamuri <srikanth.nandamuri@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> index ffbd9a3d78d8..278cc9f92f2f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -1603,13 +1603,20 @@ int native_cpu_disable(void)
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> + cpu_disable_common();
> /*
> * Disable the local APIC. Otherwise IPI broadcasts will reach
> * it. It still responds normally to INIT, NMI, SMI, and SIPI
> - * messages.
> + * messages. Its important to do apic_soft_disable() after

It's

> + * fixup_irqs(), because fixup_irqs() called from cpu_disable_common()
> + * depends on IRR being set. After apic_soft_disable() CPU preserves
> + * currently set IRR/ISR but new interrupts will not set IRR.
> + * This causes interrupts sent to outgoing cpu before completion

CPU

> + * of irq migration to be lost. Check SDM Vol 3 "10.4.7.2 Local

IRQ

> + * APIC State after It Has been Software Disabled" section for more
> + * details.
> */
> apic_soft_disable();
> - cpu_disable_common();
>
> return 0;
> }
>

thanks.
--
~Randy