[patch 1/3] lib/percpu_counter: Fix CPU hotplug handling

[Thomas Gleixner]

Commit 8b57b11cca88 ("pcpcntrs: fix dying cpu summation race") tried to
address a race condition between percpu_counter_sum() and a concurrent CPU
hotplug operation.

The race window is between the point where an un-plugged CPU removed itself
from the online_cpu_mask and the hotplug state callback which folds the per
CPU counters of the now dead CPU into the global count.

percpu_counter_sum() used for_each_online_cpu() to accumulate the per CPU
local counts, so during the race window it missed to account for the not
yet folded back local count of the offlined CPU.

The attempt to address this used the admittedly undocumented and
pointlessly public cpu_dying_mask by changing the loop iterator to take
both the cpu_online_mask and the cpu_dying_mask into account.

That works to some extent, but it is incorrect.

The cpu_dying_mask bits are sticky even after cpu_up()/cpu_down()
completes. That means that all offlined CPUs are always taken into
account. In the case of disabling SMT at boottime or runtime this results
in evaluating _all_ offlined SMT siblings counters forever.  Depending on
system size, that's a massive amount of cache-lines to be touched forever.

It might be argued, that the cpu_dying_mask bit could be cleared when
cpu_down() completes, but that's not possible under all circumstances.

Especially with partial hotplug the bit must be sticky in order to keep the
initial user, i.e. the scheduler correct. Partial hotplug which allows
explicit state transitions also can create a situation where the race
window gets recreated:

       cpu_down(target = CPUHP_PERCPU_CNT_DEAD + 1)

brings a CPU down to one state before the per CPU counter folding
callback. As this did not reach CPUHP_OFFLINE state the bit would stay set.
Now the next partial operation:

       cpu_up(target = CPUHP_PERCPU_CNT_DEAD + 2)

has to clear the bit and the race window is open again.

There are two ways to solve this:

  1) Maintain a local CPU mask in the per CPU counter code which
     gets the bit set when a CPU comes online and removed in the
     the CPUHP_PERCPU_CNT_DEAD state after folding.

     This adds more code and complexity.

  2) Move the folding hotplug state into the DYING callback section, which
     runs on the outgoing CPU immediatedly after it cleared its online bit.

     There is no concurrency vs. percpu_counter_sum() on another CPU
     because all still online CPUs are waiting in stop_machine() for the
     outgoing CPU to complete its shutdown. The raw spinlock held around
     the CPU mask iteration prevents that an online CPU reaches the stop
     machine thread while iterating, which implicitely prevents the
     outgoing CPU from clearing its online bit.

     This is way simpler than #1 and makes the hotplug calls symmetric for
     the price of a slightly longer wait time in stop_machine(), which is
     not the end of the world as CPU un-plug is already slow. The overall
     time for a cpu_down() operation stays exactly the same.

Implement #2 and plug the race completely.

percpu_counter_sum() is still inherently racy against a concurrent
percpu_counter_add_batch() fastpath unless externally serialized.  That's
completely independent of CPU hotplug though.

Fixes: 8b57b11cca88 ("pcpcntrs: fix dying cpu summation race")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h |    2 -
 lib/percpu_counter.c       |   57 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ enum cpuhp_state {
 	CPUHP_PRINTK_DEAD,
 	CPUHP_MM_MEMCQ_DEAD,
 	CPUHP_XFS_DEAD,
-	CPUHP_PERCPU_CNT_DEAD,
 	CPUHP_RADIX_DEAD,
 	CPUHP_PAGE_ALLOC,
 	CPUHP_NET_DEV_DEAD,
@@ -196,6 +195,7 @@ enum cpuhp_state {
 	CPUHP_AP_SMPCFD_DYING,
 	CPUHP_AP_X86_TBOOT_DYING,
 	CPUHP_AP_ARM_CACHE_B15_RAC_DYING,
+	CPUHP_AP_PERCPU_COUNTER_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_ONLINE,
 	CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU,
 
--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 static LIST_HEAD(percpu_counters);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(percpu_counters_lock);
+static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(percpu_counters_lock);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER
@@ -126,13 +126,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(percpu_counter_sync);
  * Add up all the per-cpu counts, return the result.  This is a more accurate
  * but much slower version of percpu_counter_read_positive().
  *
- * We use the cpu mask of (cpu_online_mask | cpu_dying_mask) to capture sums
- * from CPUs that are in the process of being taken offline. Dying cpus have
- * been removed from the online mask, but may not have had the hotplug dead
- * notifier called to fold the percpu count back into the global counter sum.
- * By including dying CPUs in the iteration mask, we avoid this race condition
- * so __percpu_counter_sum() just does the right thing when CPUs are being taken
- * offline.
+ * Note: This function is inherently racy against the lockless fastpath of
+ * percpu_counter_add_batch() unless externaly serialized.
  */
 s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
 {
@@ -142,10 +137,8 @@ s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_c
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&fbc->lock, flags);
 	ret = fbc->count;
-	for_each_cpu_or(cpu, cpu_online_mask, cpu_dying_mask) {
-		s32 *pcount = per_cpu_ptr(fbc->counters, cpu);
-		ret += *pcount;
-	}
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+		ret += *per_cpu_ptr(fbc->counters, cpu);
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbc->lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -167,9 +160,9 @@ int __percpu_counter_init(struct percpu_
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fbc->list);
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
 	list_add(&fbc->list, &percpu_counters);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
 #endif
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -185,9 +178,9 @@ void percpu_counter_destroy(struct percp
 	debug_percpu_counter_deactivate(fbc);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
 	list_del(&fbc->list);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
 #endif
 	free_percpu(fbc->counters);
 	fbc->counters = NULL;
@@ -197,22 +190,29 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(percpu_counter_destroy);
 int percpu_counter_batch __read_mostly = 32;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(percpu_counter_batch);
 
-static int compute_batch_value(unsigned int cpu)
+static void compute_batch_value(int offs)
 {
-	int nr = num_online_cpus();
+	int nr = num_online_cpus() + offs;
+
+	percpu_counter_batch = max(32, nr * 2);
+}
 
-	percpu_counter_batch = max(32, nr*2);
+static int percpu_counter_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	/* If invoked during hotplug @cpu is not yet marked online. */
+	compute_batch_value(cpu_online(cpu) ? 0 : 1);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int percpu_counter_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
+static int percpu_counter_cpu_dying(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 	struct percpu_counter *fbc;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	compute_batch_value(cpu);
+	compute_batch_value(0);
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&percpu_counters_lock);
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
 	list_for_each_entry(fbc, &percpu_counters, list) {
 		s32 *pcount;
 
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int percpu_counter_cpu_dead(unsig
 		*pcount = 0;
 		raw_spin_unlock(&fbc->lock);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irq(&percpu_counters_lock);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&percpu_counters_lock, flags);
 #endif
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -256,15 +256,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__percpu_counter_compare);
 
 static int __init percpu_counter_startup(void)
 {
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "lib/percpu_cnt:online",
-				compute_batch_value, NULL);
-	WARN_ON(ret < 0);
-	ret = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_PERCPU_CNT_DEAD,
-					"lib/percpu_cnt:dead", NULL,
-					percpu_counter_cpu_dead);
-	WARN_ON(ret < 0);
+	WARN_ON(cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_PERCPU_COUNTER_STARTING, "lib/percpu_counter:starting",
+				  percpu_counter_cpu_starting, percpu_counter_cpu_dying));
 	return 0;
 }
 module_init(percpu_counter_startup);