On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:50:42AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> After debugging, I found the hotlug-in cpu is atctive but !online in this 
> case.
> the problem was introduced by 5fbd036b.
> Some code assumes that any cpu in cpu_active_mask is also online, but 
> 5fbd036b breaks
> this assumption, so the corresponding code with this assumption should be 
> changed too.

Good find, and yes it does that.

> The following patch is just a workaround. After it is applied, the above 
> WARNING
> is gone, but I can't hit the wq problem that you found.

Seeing how the entirety of hotplug is basically duct tape and twigs, the
below isn't that bad.

> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
> index a9e710e..253a129 100644
> --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> @@ -726,9 +726,10 @@ void set_cpu_present(unsigned int cpu, bool present)
>  
>  void set_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu, bool online)
>  {
> -     if (online)
> +     if (online) {
>               cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(cpu_online_bits));
> -     else
> +             cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(cpu_active_bits));
> +     } else
>               cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(cpu_online_bits));
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 268a45e..c1a712d 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -5043,7 +5043,6 @@ static int sched_cpu_active(struct notifier_block *nfb,
>                                     unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
>  {
>       switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
> -     case CPU_STARTING:
>       case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
>               set_cpu_active((long)hcpu, true);
>               return NOTIFY_OK;

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