[PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/smp: Fix a crash while booting kvm guest with nr_cpus=2

Gautham R Shenoy ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 31 17:08:41 AEST 2021


On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 03:33:59PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Aneesh reported a crash with a fairly recent upstream kernel when
> booting kernel whose commandline was appended with nr_cpus=2
> 
> 1:mon> e
> cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000008a67bd0]
>     pc: c00000000002557c: cpu_to_chip_id+0x3c/0x100
>     lr: c000000000058380: start_secondary+0x460/0xb00
>     sp: c000000008a67e70
>    msr: 8000000000001033
>    dar: 10
>  dsisr: 80000
>   current = 0xc00000000891bb00
>   paca    = 0xc0000018ff981f80   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
>     pid   = 0, comm = swapper/1
> Linux version 5.13.0-rc3-15704-ga050a6d2b7e8 (kvaneesh at ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #433 SMP Tue May 25 02:38:49 CDT 2021
> 1:mon> t
> [link register   ] c000000000058380 start_secondary+0x460/0xb00
> [c000000008a67e70] c000000008a67eb0 (unreliable)
> [c000000008a67eb0] c0000000000589d4 start_secondary+0xab4/0xb00
> [c000000008a67f90] c00000000000c654 start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
> 
> Current code assumes that num_possible_cpus() is always greater than
> threads_per_core. However this may not be true when using nr_cpus=2 or
> similar options. Handle the case where num_possible_cpus() is not an
> exact multiple of  threads_per_core.
> 
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider at arm.com>
> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>
> Fixes: c1e53367dab1 ("powerpc/smp: Cache CPU to chip lookup")
> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
> Debugged-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


This looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
> Changelog: v1 -> v2:
> v1: - https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20210821092419.167454-2-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com/t/#u
> Handled comment from Gautham Shenoy
> [ Updated to use DIV_ROUND_UP instead of max to handle more situations ]
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> index 6c6e4d934d86..bf11b3c4eb28 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
>  	}
> 
>  	if (cpu_to_chip_id(boot_cpuid) != -1) {
> -		int idx = num_possible_cpus() / threads_per_core;
> +		int idx = DIV_ROUND_UP(num_possible_cpus(), threads_per_core);
> 
>  		/*
>  		 * All threads of a core will all belong to the same core,
> -- 
> 2.18.2
> 


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