[PATCH] powerpc/smp: Use GFP_ATOMIC while allocating tmp mask

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Oct 8 14:42:40 AEDT 2020


Qian Cai reported a regression where CPU Hotplug fails with the latest
powerpc/next

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:494
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/88
no locks held by swapper/88/0.
irq event stamp: 18074448
hardirqs last  enabled at (18074447): [<c0000000001a2a7c>] tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x9c/0x110
hardirqs last disabled at (18074448): [<c000000000106798>] do_idle+0x138/0x3b0
do_idle at kernel/sched/idle.c:253 (discriminator 1)
softirqs last  enabled at (18074440): [<c0000000000bbec4>] irq_enter_rcu+0x94/0xa0
softirqs last disabled at (18074439): [<c0000000000bbea0>] irq_enter_rcu+0x70/0xa0
CPU: 88 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/88 Tainted: G        W         5.9.0-rc8-next-20201007 #1
Call Trace:
[c00020000a4bfcf0] [c000000000649e98] dump_stack+0xec/0x144 (unreliable)
[c00020000a4bfd30] [c0000000000f6c34] ___might_sleep+0x2f4/0x310
[c00020000a4bfdb0] [c000000000354f94] slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.82+0x124/0x190
[c00020000a4bfe00] [c00000000035e9e8] __kmalloc_node+0x88/0x3a0
slab_alloc_node at mm/slub.c:2817
(inlined by) __kmalloc_node at mm/slub.c:4013
[c00020000a4bfe80] [c0000000006494d8] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x38/0x80
kmalloc_node at include/linux/slab.h:577
(inlined by) alloc_cpumask_var_node at lib/cpumask.c:116
[c00020000a4bfef0] [c00000000003eedc] start_secondary+0x27c/0x800
update_mask_by_l2 at arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:1267
(inlined by) add_cpu_to_masks at arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:1387
(inlined by) start_secondary at arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:1420
[c00020000a4bff90] [c00000000000c468] start_secondary_resume+0x10/0x14

Allocating a temporary mask while performing a CPU Hotplug operation
with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK enabled, leads to calling a sleepable
function from a atomic context. Fix this by allocating the temporary
mask with GFP_ATOMIC flag.

If there is a failure to allocate a mask, scheduler is going to observe
that this CPU's topology is broken. Instead of having to speculate why
the topology is broken, add a WARN_ON_ONCE.

Fixes: 70a94089d7f7 ("powerpc/smp: Optimize update_coregroup_mask")
Fixes: 3ab33d6dc3e9 ("powerpc/smp: Optimize update_mask_by_l2")
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai at redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider at arm.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai at redhat.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 0dc1b85..1268558 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -1264,7 +1264,8 @@ static bool update_mask_by_l2(int cpu)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	alloc_cpumask_var_node(&mask, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+	/* In CPU-hotplug path, hence use GFP_ATOMIC */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&mask, GFP_ATOMIC, cpu_to_node(cpu)));
 	cpumask_and(mask, cpu_online_mask, cpu_cpu_mask(cpu));
 
 	if (has_big_cores)
@@ -1344,7 +1345,8 @@ static void update_coregroup_mask(int cpu)
 	int coregroup_id = cpu_to_coregroup_id(cpu);
 	int i;
 
-	alloc_cpumask_var_node(&mask, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+	/* In CPU-hotplug path, hence use GFP_ATOMIC */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&mask, GFP_ATOMIC, cpu_to_node(cpu)));
 	cpumask_and(mask, cpu_online_mask, cpu_cpu_mask(cpu));
 
 	if (shared_caches)
-- 
1.8.3.1



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