[tip: timers/urgent] tick/nohz_full: Don't abuse smp_call_function_single() in tick_setup_device()

From: tip-bot2 for Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jun 10 2024 - 14:26:58 EST


The following commit has been merged into the timers/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 07c54cc5988f19c9642fd463c2dbdac7fc52f777
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/07c54cc5988f19c9642fd463c2dbdac7fc52f777
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 28 May 2024 14:20:19 +02:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:18:13 +02:00

tick/nohz_full: Don't abuse smp_call_function_single() in tick_setup_device()

After the recent commit 5097cbcb38e6 ("sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash
when the boot CPU is nohz_full") the kernel no longer crashes, but there is
another problem.

In this case tick_setup_device() calls tick_take_do_timer_from_boot() to
update tick_do_timer_cpu and this triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled)
in smp_call_function_single().

Kill tick_take_do_timer_from_boot() and just use WRITE_ONCE(), the new
comment explains why this is safe (thanks Thomas!).

Fixes: 08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528122019.GA28794@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240522151742.GA10400@xxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/time/tick-common.c | 42 ++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index d88b130..a47bcf7 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -178,26 +178,6 @@ void tick_setup_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev, int broadcast)
}
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
-static void giveup_do_timer(void *info)
-{
- int cpu = *(unsigned int *)info;
-
- WARN_ON(tick_do_timer_cpu != smp_processor_id());
-
- tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
-}
-
-static void tick_take_do_timer_from_boot(void)
-{
- int cpu = smp_processor_id();
- int from = tick_do_timer_boot_cpu;
-
- if (from >= 0 && from != cpu)
- smp_call_function_single(from, giveup_do_timer, &cpu, 1);
-}
-#endif
-
/*
* Setup the tick device
*/
@@ -221,19 +201,25 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tick_device *td,
tick_next_period = ktime_get();
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
/*
- * The boot CPU may be nohz_full, in which case set
- * tick_do_timer_boot_cpu so the first housekeeping
- * secondary that comes up will take do_timer from
- * us.
+ * The boot CPU may be nohz_full, in which case the
+ * first housekeeping secondary will take do_timer()
+ * from it.
*/
if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
tick_do_timer_boot_cpu = cpu;

- } else if (tick_do_timer_boot_cpu != -1 &&
- !tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) {
- tick_take_do_timer_from_boot();
+ } else if (tick_do_timer_boot_cpu != -1 && !tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) {
tick_do_timer_boot_cpu = -1;
- WARN_ON(READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu) != cpu);
+ /*
+ * The boot CPU will stay in periodic (NOHZ disabled)
+ * mode until clocksource_done_booting() called after
+ * smp_init() selects a high resolution clocksource and
+ * timekeeping_notify() kicks the NOHZ stuff alive.
+ *
+ * So this WRITE_ONCE can only race with the READ_ONCE
+ * check in tick_periodic() but this race is harmless.
+ */
+ WRITE_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu, cpu);
#endif
}