Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Use cpu_dying() to fix balance_push vs hotplug-rollback

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:46:33AM +0100, Vincent Donnefort wrote:

> Found the issue:
> 
> $ cat hotplug/states:
> 219: sched:active
> 220: online
> 
> CPU0: 
> 
> $ echo 219 > hotplug/fail
> $ echo 0 > online
> 
> => cpu_active = 1 cpu_dying = 1
> 
> which means that later on, for another CPU hotunplug, in
> __balance_push_cpu_stop(), the fallback rq for a kthread can select that
> CPU0, but __migrate_task() would fail and we end-up in an infinite loop,
> trying to migrate that task to CPU0.
> 
> The problem is that for a failure in sched:active, as "online" has no callback,
> there will be no call to cpuhp_invoke_callback(). Hence, the cpu_dying bit would
> not be reset.

Urgh! Good find.

> Maybe cpuhp_reset_state() and cpuhp_set_state() would then be a better place to
> switch the dying bit?

Yes, except now cpuhp_invoke_ap_callback() makes my head hurt, that runs
the callbacks out of order. I _think_ we can ignore it, but ....

Something like the below, let me see if I can reproduce and test.

---
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 838dcf238f92..05272bae953d 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -160,9 +160,6 @@ static int cpuhp_invoke_callback(unsigned int cpu, enum cpuhp_state state,
 	int (*cb)(unsigned int cpu);
 	int ret, cnt;
 
-	if (cpu_dying(cpu) != !bringup)
-		set_cpu_dying(cpu, !bringup);
-
 	if (st->fail == state) {
 		st->fail = CPUHP_INVALID;
 		return -EAGAIN;
@@ -467,13 +464,16 @@ static inline enum cpuhp_state
 cpuhp_set_state(struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st, enum cpuhp_state target)
 {
 	enum cpuhp_state prev_state = st->state;
+	bool bringup = st->state < target;
 
 	st->rollback = false;
 	st->last = NULL;
 
 	st->target = target;
 	st->single = false;
-	st->bringup = st->state < target;
+	st->bringup = bringup;
+	if (cpu_dying(cpu) != !bringup)
+		set_cpu_dying(cpu, !bringup);
 
 	return prev_state;
 }
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ cpuhp_set_state(struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st, enum cpuhp_state target)
 static inline void
 cpuhp_reset_state(struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st, enum cpuhp_state prev_state)
 {
+	bool bringup = !st->bringup;
+
 	st->target = prev_state;
 
 	/*
@@ -503,7 +505,9 @@ cpuhp_reset_state(struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st, enum cpuhp_state prev_state)
 			st->state++;
 	}
 
-	st->bringup = !st->bringup;
+	st->bringup = bringup;
+	if (cpu_dying(cpu) != !bringup)
+		set_cpu_dying(cpu, !bringup);
 }
 
 /* Regular hotplug invocation of the AP hotplug thread */