for_each_domain()/sched_domain_span() has offline CPUs (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] timers: Fix removed self-IPI on global timer's enqueue in nohz_full)

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Mar 22 2024 - 09:22:29 EST


On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 12:32:26PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 05:47:59AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> [ 1484.955213] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 162 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1088 enqueue_hrtimer+0x6f/0x80
> [ 1484.962513] Modules linked in:
> [ 1484.966476] CPU: 6 PID: 162 Comm: rcu_torture_rea Not tainted 6.8.0 #25
> [ 1484.972975] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
> [ 1484.977653] RIP: 0010:enqueue_hrtimer+0x6f/0x80
> [ 1484.978679] Code: a3 05 75 6a b7 01 73 bd 48 8b 05 e4 47 b5 01 48 85 c0 74 0c 48 8b 78 08 48 89 ee e8 eb bd ff ff 48 8b 03 f6 40 10 10 75 a5 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 9f 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90
> [ 1484.983136] RSP: 0000:ffffa553805cfd70 EFLAGS: 00010046
> [ 1484.984386] RAX: ffff8c395f260440 RBX: ffff8c395f260480 RCX: ffff8c395f260440
> [ 1484.986121] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8c395f260480 RDI: ffffa553805cfde0
> [ 1484.987704] RBP: ffffa553805cfde0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000fc03
> [ 1484.989513] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff8c3941248e40 R12: 0000000000000040
> [ 1484.991116] R13: ffff8c395f260480 R14: ffff8c395f260480 R15: ffff8c395f260440
> [ 1484.992835] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c395f380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 1484.994683] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 1484.995985] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001a62c000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> [ 1484.997789] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 1484.999376] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [ 1485.001177] Call Trace:
> [ 1485.002388] <TASK>
> [ 1485.002923] ? __warn+0x78/0x120
> [ 1485.003641] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x6f/0x80
> [ 1485.004641] ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1d0
> [ 1485.005537] ? handle_bug+0x40/0x70
> [ 1485.006318] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x70
> [ 1485.007167] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
> [ 1485.008117] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x6f/0x80
> [ 1485.009131] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x258/0x2f0
> [ 1485.010153] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_reader+0x10/0x10
> [ 1485.011185] schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x96/0x120
> [ 1485.012394] ? __pfx_hrtimer_wakeup+0x10/0x10
> [ 1485.013502] stutter_wait+0x7f/0x90
> [ 1485.014319] rcu_torture_reader+0x10e/0x280
> [ 1485.015240] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_timer+0x10/0x10
> [ 1485.016317] ? kthread+0xc6/0xf0
> [ 1485.017169] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_reader+0x10/0x10
> [ 1485.018215] kthread+0xc6/0xf0
> [ 1485.018899] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> [ 1485.019703] ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x40
> [ 1485.020546] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> [ 1485.021428] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
> [ 1485.022295] </TASK>
>
> This happens within the following loop
>
> for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
> for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_domain_span(sd), hk_mask) {
> if (cpu == i)
> continue;
>
> if (!idle_cpu(i))
> return i;
> }
> }
>
> An offline CPU is returned from there. Which is not supposed to happen
> as it's within an RCU read side. But I can't manage to find where those
> rq->sd things are modified when a CPU is offlining. The code path is hard
> to follow. Adding some scheduler people involved in topology just in case.
> Investigation continues...

So I just tried a simple test. I applied the following PoF patch, under the
assumption that right after the exit of takedown_cpu(), the target CPU is
offline and all CPUs must see the updates perfomed by the now dead target
CPU. I expect also that the target CPU should have removed itself from the
scheduling domains (though I don't know where that happens in the maze):

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/nohz.h b/include/linux/sched/nohz.h
index 6d67e9a5af6b..2e0580abc73a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/nohz.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/nohz.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON)
extern void nohz_balance_enter_idle(int cpu);
extern int get_nohz_timer_target(void);
+extern void sched_assert_online_domains(int cpu);
#else
static inline void nohz_balance_enter_idle(int cpu) { }
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 6c0a92ca6bb5..3424d1d40142 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ void clear_tasks_mm_cpumask(int cpu)
}

/* Take this CPU down. */
-static int take_cpu_down(void *_param)
+int take_cpu_down(void *_param)
{
struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st = this_cpu_ptr(&cpuhp_state);
enum cpuhp_state target = max((int)st->target, CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 0d18c3969f90..57f483fc1037 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,22 @@ void resched_cpu(int cpu)

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
+void sched_assert_online_domains(int cpu)
+{
+ struct sched_domain *sd;
+ int i;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
+ for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
+ if (cpu == i)
+ continue;
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(i));
+ }
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
/*
* In the semi idle case, use the nearest busy CPU for migrating timers
* from an idle CPU. This is good for power-savings.
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index cedb17ba158a..354806156bd9 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/sched/wake_q.h>
+#include <linux/sched/nohz.h>

/*
* Structure to determine completion condition and record errors. May
@@ -199,6 +200,8 @@ notrace void __weak stop_machine_yield(const struct cpumask *cpumask)
cpu_relax();
}

+extern int take_cpu_down(void *_param);
+
/* This is the cpu_stop function which stops the CPU. */
static int multi_cpu_stop(void *data)
{
@@ -255,6 +258,8 @@ static int multi_cpu_stop(void *data)
} while (curstate != MULTI_STOP_EXIT);

local_irq_restore(flags);
+ if (!is_active && msdata->fn == take_cpu_down)
+ sched_assert_online_domains(smp_processor_id());
return err;
}

Then with that patch I ran TREE07, just some short iterations:

tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --configs "10*TREE07" --allcpus --bootargs "rcutorture.onoff_interval=200" --duration 2

And the warning triggers very quickly. At least since v6.3 but maybe since
earlier. Is this expected behaviour or am I right to assume that
for_each_domain()/sched_domain_span() shouldn't return an offline CPU?

Thanks.