[PATCH] pseries: prevent free CPU ids to be reused on another node

Laurent Dufour ldufour at linux.ibm.com
Thu Mar 18 20:20:14 AEDT 2021


When a CPU is hot added, the CPU ids are taken from the available mask from
the lower possible set. If that set of values was previously used for CPU
attached to a different node, this seems to application like if these CPUs
have migrated from a node to another one which is not expected in real
life.

To prevent this, it is needed to record the CPU ids used for each node and
to not reuse them on another node. However, to prevent CPU hot plug to
fail, in the case the CPU ids is starved on a node, the capability to reuse
other nodes’ free CPU ids is kept. A warning is displayed in such a case
to warn the user.

A new CPU bit mask (node_recorded_ids_map) is introduced for each possible
node. It is populated with the CPU onlined at boot time, and then when a
CPU is hot plug to a node. The bits in that mask remain when the CPU is hot
unplugged, to remind this CPU ids have been used for this node.

If no id set was found, a retry is made without removing the ids used on
the other nodes to try reusing them. This is the way ids have been
allocated prior to this patch.

The effect of this patch can be seen by removing and adding CPUs using the
Qemu monitor. In the following case, the first CPU from the node 2 is
removed, then the first one from the node 1 is removed too. Later, the
first CPU of the node 2 is added back. Without that patch, the kernel will
numbered these CPUs using the first CPU ids available which are the ones
freed when removing the second CPU of the node 0. This leads to the CPU ids
16-23 to move from the node 1 to the node 2. With the patch applied, the
CPU ids 32-39 are used since they are the lowest free ones which have not
been used on another node.

At boot time:
[root at vm40 ~]# numactl -H | grep cpus
available: 3 nodes (0-2)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
node 1 cpus: 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
node 2 cpus: 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

Unpatched kernel, after the CPU hot unplug/plug operations:
[root at vm40 ~]# numactl -H | grep cpus
available: 3 nodes (0-2)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
node 1 cpus: 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
node 2 cpus: 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

Patched kernel, after the CPU hot unplug/plug operations:
[root at vm40 ~]# numactl -H | grep cpus
available: 3 nodes (0-2)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
node 1 cpus: 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
node 2 cpus: 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
index 12cbffd3c2e3..dc5797110d6e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 /* This version can't take the spinlock, because it never returns */
 static int rtas_stop_self_token = RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE;
 
+cpumask_var_t node_recorded_ids_map[MAX_NUMNODES];
+
 static void rtas_stop_self(void)
 {
 	static struct rtas_args args;
@@ -151,29 +153,61 @@ static void pseries_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
  */
 static int pseries_add_processor(struct device_node *np)
 {
-	unsigned int cpu;
+	unsigned int cpu, node;
 	cpumask_var_t candidate_mask, tmp;
-	int err = -ENOSPC, len, nthreads, i;
+	int err = -ENOSPC, len, nthreads, i, nid;
 	const __be32 *intserv;
+	bool force_reusing = false;
 
 	intserv = of_get_property(np, "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s", &len);
 	if (!intserv)
 		return 0;
 
-	zalloc_cpumask_var(&candidate_mask, GFP_KERNEL);
-	zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
+	alloc_cpumask_var(&candidate_mask, GFP_KERNEL);
+	alloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	/*
+	 * Fetch from the DT nodes read by dlpar_configure_connector() the NUMA
+	 * node id the added CPU belongs to.
+	 */
+	nid = of_node_to_nid(np);
+	if (nid < 0 || !node_possible(nid))
+		nid = first_online_node;
 
 	nthreads = len / sizeof(u32);
-	for (i = 0; i < nthreads; i++)
-		cpumask_set_cpu(i, tmp);
 
 	cpu_maps_update_begin();
 
 	BUG_ON(!cpumask_subset(cpu_present_mask, cpu_possible_mask));
 
+again:
+	cpumask_clear(candidate_mask);
+	cpumask_clear(tmp);
+	for (i = 0; i < nthreads; i++)
+		cpumask_set_cpu(i, tmp);
+
 	/* Get a bitmap of unoccupied slots. */
 	cpumask_xor(candidate_mask, cpu_possible_mask, cpu_present_mask);
+
+	/*
+	 * Remove free ids previously assigned on the other nodes. We can walk
+	 * only online nodes because once a node became online it is not turned
+	 * offlined back.
+	 */
+	if (!force_reusing)
+		for_each_online_node(node) {
+			if (node == nid) /* Keep our node's recorded ids */
+				continue;
+			cpumask_andnot(candidate_mask, candidate_mask,
+				       node_recorded_ids_map[node]);
+		}
+
 	if (cpumask_empty(candidate_mask)) {
+		if (!force_reusing) {
+			force_reusing = true;
+			goto again;
+		}
+
 		/* If we get here, it most likely means that NR_CPUS is
 		 * less than the partition's max processors setting.
 		 */
@@ -191,12 +225,36 @@ static int pseries_add_processor(struct device_node *np)
 			cpumask_shift_left(tmp, tmp, nthreads);
 
 	if (cpumask_empty(tmp)) {
+		if (!force_reusing) {
+			force_reusing = true;
+			goto again;
+		}
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to find space in cpu_present_mask for"
 		       " processor %pOFn with %d thread(s)\n", np,
 		       nthreads);
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
+	/* Record the newly used CPU ids for the associate node. */
+	cpumask_or(node_recorded_ids_map[nid], node_recorded_ids_map[nid], tmp);
+
+	/*
+	 * If we force reusing the id, remove these ids from any node which was
+	 * previously using it.
+	 */
+	if (force_reusing) {
+		cpu = cpumask_first(tmp);
+		pr_warn("Reusing free CPU ids %d-%d from another node\n",
+			cpu, cpu + nthreads - 1);
+
+		for_each_online_node(node) {
+			if (node == nid)
+				continue;
+			cpumask_andnot(node_recorded_ids_map[node],
+				       node_recorded_ids_map[node], tmp);
+		}
+	}
+
 	for_each_cpu(cpu, tmp) {
 		BUG_ON(cpu_present(cpu));
 		set_cpu_present(cpu, true);
@@ -889,6 +947,7 @@ static struct notifier_block pseries_smp_nb = {
 static int __init pseries_cpu_hotplug_init(void)
 {
 	int qcss_tok;
+	unsigned int node;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
 	ppc_md.cpu_probe = dlpar_cpu_probe;
@@ -910,8 +969,18 @@ static int __init pseries_cpu_hotplug_init(void)
 	smp_ops->cpu_die = pseries_cpu_die;
 
 	/* Processors can be added/removed only on LPAR */
-	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR))
+	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR)) {
+		for_each_node(node) {
+			alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&node_recorded_ids_map[node]);
+
+			/* Record ids of CPU added at boot time */
+			cpumask_or(node_recorded_ids_map[node],
+				   node_recorded_ids_map[node],
+				   node_to_cpumask_map[node]);
+		}
+
 		of_reconfig_notifier_register(&pseries_smp_nb);
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.30.2



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