[PATCH 1/2] arm64: topology: Avoid checking numa mask for scheduler MC selection

Manoj Iyer manoj.iyer at canonical.com
Fri Oct 12 17:48:44 UTC 2018


From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>

The numa mask subset check can often lead to system hang or crash during
CPU hotplug and system suspend operation if NUMA is disabled. This is
mostly observed on HMP systems where the CPU compute capacities are
different and ends up in different scheduler domains. Since
cpumask_of_node is returned instead core_sibling, the scheduler is
confused with incorrect cpumasks(e.g. one CPU in two different sched
domains at the same time) on CPU hotplug.

Lets disable the NUMA siblings checks for the time being, as NUMA in
socket machines have LLC's that will assure that the scheduler topology
isn't "borken".

The NUMA check exists to assure that if a LLC within a socket crosses
NUMA nodes/chiplets the scheduler domains remain consistent. This code will
likely have to be re-enabled in the near future once the NUMA mask story
is sorted.  At the moment its not necessary because the NUMA in socket
machines LLC's are contained within the NUMA domains.

Further, as a defensive mechanism during hot-plug, lets assure that the
LLC siblings are also masked.

BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/1797202

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit e156ab71a974737c279530e3b868131291fe677e)
Signed-off-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index 6fd3197495cf..eb2e6dd07507 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -219,13 +219,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_topology);
 
 const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu)
 {
-	const cpumask_t *core_mask = cpumask_of_node(cpu_to_node(cpu));
+	const cpumask_t *core_mask = &cpu_topology[cpu].core_sibling;
 
-	/* Find the smaller of NUMA, core or LLC siblings */
-	if (cpumask_subset(&cpu_topology[cpu].core_sibling, core_mask)) {
-		/* not numa in package, lets use the package siblings */
-		core_mask = &cpu_topology[cpu].core_sibling;
-	}
 	if (cpu_topology[cpu].llc_id != -1) {
 		if (cpumask_subset(&cpu_topology[cpu].llc_siblings, core_mask))
 			core_mask = &cpu_topology[cpu].llc_siblings;
@@ -243,8 +238,10 @@ static void update_siblings_masks(unsigned int cpuid)
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		cpu_topo = &cpu_topology[cpu];
 
-		if (cpuid_topo->llc_id == cpu_topo->llc_id)
+		if (cpuid_topo->llc_id == cpu_topo->llc_id) {
 			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &cpuid_topo->llc_siblings);
+			cpumask_set_cpu(cpuid, &cpu_topo->llc_siblings);
+		}
 
 		if (cpuid_topo->package_id != cpu_topo->package_id)
 			continue;
-- 
2.17.1





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