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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] power, sched: stop updating inside arch_update_cpu_topology() when nothing to be update
On 04/08/2014 11:19 AM, Michael wang wrote:
> Since v1:
> Edited the comment according to Srivatsa's suggestion.
>
> During the testing, we encounter below WARN followed by Oops:

Is there any more comments on this issue? Should we apply this fix?

Regards,
Michael Wang

>
> WARNING: at kernel/sched/core.c:6218
> ...
> NIP [c000000000101660] .build_sched_domains+0x11d0/0x1200
> LR [c000000000101358] .build_sched_domains+0xec8/0x1200
> PACATMSCRATCH [800000000000f032]
> Call Trace:
> [c00000001b103850] [c000000000101358] .build_sched_domains+0xec8/0x1200
> [c00000001b1039a0] [c00000000010aad4] .partition_sched_domains+0x484/0x510
> [c00000001b103aa0] [c00000000016d0a8] .rebuild_sched_domains+0x68/0xa0
> [c00000001b103b30] [c00000000005cbf0] .topology_work_fn+0x10/0x30
> ...
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> ...
> NIP [c00000000045c000] .__bitmap_weight+0x60/0xf0
> LR [c00000000010132c] .build_sched_domains+0xe9c/0x1200
> PACATMSCRATCH [8000000000029032]
> Call Trace:
> [c00000001b1037a0] [c000000000288ff4] .kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x184/0x3a0
> [c00000001b103850] [c00000000010132c] .build_sched_domains+0xe9c/0x1200
> [c00000001b1039a0] [c00000000010aad4] .partition_sched_domains+0x484/0x510
> [c00000001b103aa0] [c00000000016d0a8] .rebuild_sched_domains+0x68/0xa0
> [c00000001b103b30] [c00000000005cbf0] .topology_work_fn+0x10/0x30
> ...
>
> This was caused by that 'sd->groups == NULL' after building groups, which
> was caused by the empty 'sd->span'.
>
> The cpu's domain contained nothing because the cpu was assigned to a wrong
> node, due to the following unfortunate sequence of events:
>
> 1. The hypervisor sent a topology update to the guest OS, to notify changes
> to the cpu-node mapping. However, the update was actually redundant - i.e.,
> the "new" mapping was exactly the same as the old one.
>
> 2. Due to this, the 'updated_cpus' mask turned out to be empty after exiting
> the 'for-loop' in arch_update_cpu_topology().
>
> 3. So we ended up calling stop-machine() with an empty cpumask list, which made
> stop-machine internally elect cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask), i.e., CPU0 as
> the cpu to run the payload (the update_cpu_topology() function).
>
> 4. This causes update_cpu_topology() to be run by CPU0. And since 'updates'
> is kzalloc()'ed inside arch_update_cpu_topology(), update_cpu_topology()
> finds update->cpu as well as update->new_nid to be 0. In other words, we
> end up assigning CPU0 (and eventually its siblings) to node 0, incorrectly.
>
> Along with the following wrong updating, it causes the sched-domain rebuild
> code to break and crash the system.
>
> Fix this by skipping the topology update in cases where we find that
> the topology has not actually changed in reality (ie., spurious updates).
>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> CC: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
> Suggested-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
> index 30a42e2..4ebbb9e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
> @@ -1591,6 +1591,20 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void)
> cpu = cpu_last_thread_sibling(cpu);
> }
>
> + /*
> + * In cases where we have nothing to update (because the updates list
> + * is too short or because the new topology is same as the old one),
> + * skip invoking update_cpu_topology() via stop-machine(). This is
> + * necessary (and not just a fast-path optimization) since stop-machine
> + * can end up electing a random CPU to run update_cpu_topology(), and
> + * thus trick us into setting up incorrect cpu-node mappings (since
> + * 'updates' is kzalloc()'ed).
> + *
> + * And for the similar reason, we will skip all the following updating.
> + */
> + if (!cpumask_weight(&updated_cpus))
> + goto out;
> +
> stop_machine(update_cpu_topology, &updates[0], &updated_cpus);
>
> /*
> @@ -1612,6 +1626,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void)
> changed = 1;
> }
>
> +out:
> kfree(updates);
> return changed;
> }
>



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