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Subject[PATCH] sched/core: Take the hotplug lock in sched_init_smp()
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When running on linux-next (8c60c36d0b8c ("Add linux-next specific files
for 20181019")) + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y on a big.LITTLE system (e.g.
Juno or HiKey960), we get the following report:

[ 0.748225] Call trace:
[ 0.750685] lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x30/0x40
[ 0.755236] static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x20/0xc8
[ 0.760137] build_sched_domains+0x1034/0x1108
[ 0.764601] sched_init_domains+0x68/0x90
[ 0.768628] sched_init_smp+0x30/0x80
[ 0.772309] kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x51c
[ 0.776685] kernel_init+0x10/0x108
[ 0.780190] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

The static_key in question is sched_asym_cpucapacity introduced by
commit df054e8445a4 ("sched/topology: Add static_key for asymmetric CPU
capacity optimizations"). In this particular case, we enable it because
smp_prepare_cpus() will end up fetching the capacity-dmips-mhz entry
from the devicetree, so we already have some asymmetry detected when
entering sched_init_smp().

This didn't get detected in tip/sched/core because we were missing
commit cb538267ea1e ("jump_label/lockdep: Assert we hold the hotplug
lock for _cpuslocked() operations").

Calls to build_sched_domains() post sched_init_smp() will hold the
hotplug lock, it just so happens that this very first call is a
special case. As stated by a comment in sched_init_smp(), "There's no
userspace yet to cause hotplug operations" so this is a harmless
warning.

However, to both respect the semantics of underlying
callees and make lockdep happy, take the hotplug lock in
sched_init_smp(). This also satisfies the comment atop
sched_init_domains() that says "Callers must hold the hotplug lock".

Reported-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index fd2fce8..02a20ef 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5859,11 +5859,14 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void)
/*
* There's no userspace yet to cause hotplug operations; hence all the
* CPU masks are stable and all blatant races in the below code cannot
- * happen.
+ * happen. The hotplug lock is nevertheless taken to satisfy lockdep,
+ * but there won't be any contention on it.
*/
+ cpus_read_lock();
mutex_lock(&sched_domains_mutex);
sched_init_domains(cpu_active_mask);
mutex_unlock(&sched_domains_mutex);
+ cpus_read_unlock();

/* Move init over to a non-isolated CPU */
if (set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_DOMAIN)) < 0)
--
2.7.4
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