Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle setup

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Liam,

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 7:45 PM Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Initial booting is setting the task flag to idle (PF_IDLE) by the call
> path sched_init() -> init_idle().  Having the task idle and calling
> call_rcu() in kernel/rcu/tiny.c means that TIF_NEED_RESCHED will be
> set.  Subsequent calls to any cond_resched() will enable IRQs,
> potentially earlier than the IRQ setup has completed.  Recent changes
> have caused just this scenario and IRQs have been enabled early.
>
> This causes a warning later in start_kernel() as interrupts are enabled
> before they are fully set up.
>
> Fix this issue by setting the PF_IDLE flag later in the boot sequence.
>
> Although the boot task was marked as idle since (at least) d80e4fda576d,
> I am not sure that it is wrong to do so.  The forced context-switch on
> idle task was introduced in the tiny_rcu update, so I'm going to claim
> this fixes 5f6130fa52ee.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87v8cv22jh.fsf@mail.lhotse/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMuHMdWpvpWoDa=Ox-do92czYRvkok6_x6pYUH+ZouMcJbXy+Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: 5f6130fa52ee ("tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

This fixes the

      WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at init/main.c:992 start_kernel+0x2f0/0x480

I was seeing during boot on Renesas RZ/A1 and RZ/A2 since commit
cfeb6ae8bcb96ccf ("maple_tree: disable mas_wr_append() when other
readers are possible") in v6.5.

And unlike v1, this does not cause lots of new warnings on e.g. R-Car M2-W.

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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