Hi Gautham,
Thanks a lot for the fix.
With your patches applied, 4.7.0-rc2 builds fine on ppc64le bare metal.
Boot was successful with No call traces.
Thanks for all your support !
Regard's
Abdul
On Tuesday 07 June 2016 08:44 PM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote:
With commit e9d867a67fd03ccc ("sched: Allow per-cpu kernel threads to
run on online && !active"), __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() expects that only
strict per-cpu kernel threads can have affinity to an online CPU which
is not yet active.
This assumption is currently broken in the CPU_ONLINE notification
handler for the workqueues where restore_unbound_workers_cpumask()
calls set_cpus_allowed_ptr() when the first cpu in the unbound
worker's pool->attr->cpumask comes online. Since
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is called with pool->attr->cpumask in which
only one CPU is online which is not yet active, we get the following
WARN_ON during an CPU online operation.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 40 PID: 248 at kernel/sched/core.c:1166
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x228/0x2e0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 40 PID: 248 Comm: cpuhp/40 Not tainted 4.6.0-autotest+ #4
<..snip..>
Call Trace:
[c000000f273ff920] [c00000000010493c] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x2cc/0x2e0
(unreliable)
[c000000f273ffac0] [c0000000000ed4b0] workqueue_cpu_up_callback+0x2c0/0x470
[c000000f273ffb70] [c0000000000f5c58] notifier_call_chain+0x98/0x100
[c000000f273ffbc0] [c0000000000c5ed0] __cpu_notify+0x70/0xe0
[c000000f273ffc00] [c0000000000c6028] notify_online+0x38/0x50
[c000000f273ffc30] [c0000000000c5214] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x84/0x250
[c000000f273ffc90] [c0000000000c562c] cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x5c/0x120
[c000000f273ffce0] [c0000000000c64d4] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x184/0x1c0
[c000000f273ffd20] [c0000000000fa050] smpboot_thread_fn+0x290/0x2a0
[c000000f273ffd80] [c0000000000f45b0] kthread+0x110/0x130
[c000000f273ffe30] [c000000000009570] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x6c
---[ end trace 00f1456578b2a3b2 ]---
This patch sets the affinity of the worker to
a) the only online CPU in the cpumask of the worker pool when it comes
online.
b) the cpumask of the worker pool when the second CPU in the pool's
cpumask comes online.
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <hte...@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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