Re: [PATCH v3] cpu/hotplug: wait for cpuset_hotplug_work to finish on cpu onlining

[Daniel Jordan]

Alexey Klimov <aklimov@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> When a CPU offlined and onlined via device_offline() and device_online()
> the userspace gets uevent notification. If, after receiving "online" uevent,
> userspace executes sched_setaffinity() on some task trying to move it
> to a recently onlined CPU, then it sometimes fails with -EINVAL. Userspace
> needs to wait around 5..30 ms before sched_setaffinity() will succeed for
> recently onlined CPU after receiving uevent.
>
> If in_mask argument for sched_setaffinity() has only recently onlined CPU,
> it could fail with such flow:
>
>   sched_setaffinity()
>     cpuset_cpus_allowed()
>       guarantee_online_cpus()   <-- cs->effective_cpus mask does not
>                                         contain recently onlined cpu
>     cpumask_and()               <-- final new_mask is empty
>     __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
>       cpumask_any_and_distribute() <-- returns dest_cpu equal to nr_cpu_ids
>       returns -EINVAL
>
> Cpusets used in guarantee_online_cpus() are updated using workqueue from
> cpuset_update_active_cpus() which in its turn is called from cpu hotplug callback
> sched_cpu_activate() hence it may not be observable by sched_setaffinity() if
> it is called immediately after uevent.
>
> Out of line uevent can be avoided if we will ensure that cpuset_hotplug_work
> has run to completion using cpuset_wait_for_hotplug() after onlining the
> cpu in cpu_device_up() and in cpuhp_smt_enable().
>
> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx>
> Co-analyzed-by: Joshua Baker <jobaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <aklimov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>