[PATCH 1/2] xen/smp: Fix CPU online/offline bug triggering a BUG: scheduling while atomic.

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed Feb 01 2012 - 16:29:27 EST


When a user offlines a VCPU and then onlines it, we get:

NMI watchdog disabled (cpu2): hardware events not enabled
BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/2/0/0x00000002
Modules linked in: dm_multipath dm_mod xen_evtchn iscsi_boot_sysfs iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi scsi_mod libcrc32c crc32c radeon fbco
ttm bitblit softcursor drm_kms_helper xen_blkfront xen_netfront xen_fbfront fb_sys_fops sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea xen_kbdfront xenfs [last unloaded:

Pid: 0, comm: swapper/2 Tainted: G O 3.2.0phase15.1-00003-gd6f7f5b-dirty #4
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81070571>] __schedule_bug+0x61/0x70
[<ffffffff8158eb78>] __schedule+0x798/0x850
[<ffffffff8158ed6a>] schedule+0x3a/0x50
[<ffffffff810349be>] cpu_idle+0xbe/0xe0
[<ffffffff81583599>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10

The reason for this should be obvious from this call-chain:
cpu_bringup_and_idle:
\- cpu_bringup
| \-[preempt_disable]
|
|- cpu_idle
\- play_dead [assuming the user offlined the VCPU]
| \
| +- (xen_play_dead)
| \- HYPERVISOR_VCPU_off [so VCPU is dead, once user
| | onlines it starts from here]
| \- cpu_bringup [preempt_disable]
|
+- preempt_enable_no_reschedule()
+- schedule()
\- preempt_enable()

So we have two preempt_disble() and one preempt_enable(). Calling
preempt_enable() after the cpu_bringup() in the xen_play_dead
fixes the imbalance.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
index 041d4fe..501d4e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
@@ -409,6 +409,13 @@ static void __cpuinit xen_play_dead(void) /* used only with HOTPLUG_CPU */
play_dead_common();
HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_down, smp_processor_id(), NULL);
cpu_bringup();
+ /*
+ * Balance out the preempt calls - as we are running in cpu_idle
+ * loop which has been called at bootup from cpu_bringup_and_idle.
+ * The cpucpu_bringup_and_idle called cpu_bringup which made a
+ * preempt_disable() So this preempt_enable will balance it out.
+ */
+ preempt_enable();
}

#else /* !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
--
1.7.7.5

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