[PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: Fix task_cpu in early boot when booting non-zero cpuid

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 22:59:28 AEDT 2022


powerpc/64 can boot on a non-zero SMP processor id. Initially, the boot
CPU is said to be "assumed to be 0" until early_init_devtree() discovers
the id from the device tree. That is not a good description because the
assumption can be wrong and that has to be handled, the better
description is that 0 is used as a placeholder, and things are fixed
after the real id is discovered.

smp_processor_id() is set to the boot cpuid, but task_cpu(current) is
not, which causes the smp_processor_id() == task_cpu(current) invariant
to be broken until init_idle() in sched_init().

This is quite fragile and could lead to subtle bugs in future. One bug
is that validate_sp_size uses task_cpu() to get the process stack, so
any stack trace from the the booting CPU between early_init_devtree()
and sched_init() will have problems. Early on paca_ptrs[0] will be
poisoned, so that can cause machine checks dereferencing that memory
in real mode. Later, validating the current stack pointer against the
idle task of a different secondary will probably cause no stack trace
to be printed.

Fix this by setting thread_info->cpu right after smp_processor_id() is
set to the boot cpuid.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index a0dee7354fe6..e6c8d1e326f7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -396,6 +396,9 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
 	}
 	fixup_boot_paca(paca_ptrs[boot_cpuid]);
 	setup_paca(paca_ptrs[boot_cpuid]); /* install the paca into registers */
+	// smp_processor_id() now reports boot_cpuid
+
+	task_thread_info(current)->cpu = boot_cpuid; // fix task_cpu(current)
 
 	/*
 	 * Configure exception handlers. This include setting up trampolines
-- 
2.37.2



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