Endless soft-lockups for compiling workload since next-20200519

[Qian Cai]

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:40:36AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:50:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:58:17PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > > Just a head up. Repeatedly compiling kernels for a while would trigger
> > > > endless soft-lockups since next-20200519 on both x86_64 and powerpc.
> > > > .config are in,
> > > 
> > > Could be 90b5363acd47 ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()"), although I've
> > > not seen anything like that myself. Let me go have a look.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In as far as the logs are readable (they're a wrapped mess, please don't
> > > do that!), they contain very little useful, as is typical with IPIs :/
> > > 
> > > > [ 1167.993773][    C1] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:127
> > > > flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x1fa/0x2e0
> > 
> > So I've tried to think of a race that could produce that and here is
> > the only thing I could come up with. It's a bit complicated unfortunately:
> 
> This:
> 
> >         smp_call_function_single_async() {             smp_call_function_single_async() {
> >             // verified csd->flags != CSD_LOCK             // verified csd->flags != CSD_LOCK
> >             csd->flags = CSD_LOCK                          csd->flags = CSD_LOCK
> 
> concurrent smp_call_function_single_async() using the same csd is what
> I'm looking at as well. Now in the ILB case there is an easy cure:
> 
> (because there is only a single ilb target)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 01f94cf52783..b6d8a7b991f0 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -10033,7 +10033,7 @@ static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags)
>  	 * is idle. And the softirq performing nohz idle load balance
>  	 * will be run before returning from the IPI.
>  	 */
> -	smp_call_function_single_async(ilb_cpu, &cpu_rq(ilb_cpu)->nohz_csd);
> +	smp_call_function_single_async(ilb_cpu, &this_rq()->nohz_csd);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> 
> Qian, can you give that a spin?

Running for a few hours now. It works fine.