[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 477a64e62f2816229d755553dd575a6e05539817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:06:55 -0700
Subject: cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler

commit 00df35f991914db6b8bde8cf09808e19a9cffc3d upstream.

Currently, smpboot_unpark_threads() is invoked before the incoming CPU
has been added to the scheduler's runqueue structures.  This might
potentially cause the unparked kthread to run on the wrong CPU, since the
correct CPU isn't fully set up yet.

That causes a sporadic, hard to debug boot crash triggering on some
systems, reported by Borislav Petkov, and bisected down to:

  2a442c9c6453 ("x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code")

This patch places smpboot_unpark_threads() in a CPU hotplug
notifier with priority set so that these kthreads are unparked just after
the CPU has been added to the runqueues.

Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Owen Hofmann <osh at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/cpu.h |  2 ++
 init/main.c         |  1 +
 kernel/cpu.c        | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 95978ad7fcdd..cd895a5e4d59 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ enum {
 	/* migration should happen before other stuff but after perf */
 	CPU_PRI_PERF		= 20,
 	CPU_PRI_MIGRATION	= 10,
+	CPU_PRI_SMPBOOT		= 9,
 	/* bring up workqueues before normal notifiers and down after */
 	CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_UP	= 5,
 	CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_DOWN	= -5,
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ static inline void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 }
 #endif

+void smpboot_thread_init(void);
 int cpu_up(unsigned int cpu);
 void notify_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu);
 extern void cpu_maps_update_begin(void);
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 44af5b583cf4..3861fe648fbd 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ static noinline void __init_refok rest_init(void)
 	int pid;

 	rcu_scheduler_starting();
+	smpboot_thread_init();
 	/*
 	 * We need to spawn init first so that it obtains pid 1, however
 	 * the init task will end up wanting to create kthreads, which, if
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index a343bde710b1..247d8dd17a2c 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -416,6 +416,37 @@ out:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_down);
 #endif /*CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU*/

+/*
+ * Unpark per-CPU smpboot kthreads at CPU-online time.
+ */
+static int smpboot_thread_call(struct notifier_block *nfb,
+			       unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
+{
+	int cpu = (long)hcpu;
+
+	switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
+
+	case CPU_ONLINE:
+		smpboot_unpark_threads(cpu);
+		break;
+
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block smpboot_thread_notifier = {
+	.notifier_call = smpboot_thread_call,
+	.priority = CPU_PRI_SMPBOOT,
+};
+
+void __cpuinit smpboot_thread_init(void)
+{
+	register_cpu_notifier(&smpboot_thread_notifier);
+}
+
 /* Requires cpu_add_remove_lock to be held */
 static int _cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
 {
@@ -455,9 +486,6 @@ static int _cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
 		goto out_notify;
 	BUG_ON(!cpu_online(cpu));

-	/* Wake the per cpu threads */
-	smpboot_unpark_threads(cpu);
-
 	/* Now call notifier in preparation. */
 	cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE | mod, hcpu);