[PATCH] x86, mm: Send tlb flush IPIs to online cpus only

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Thu Jul 19 2012 - 08:58:59 EST


Mandeep reports:
We are seeing a softlockup reporting during shutdown. The stack
trace shows us that we are inside default_send_IPI_mask_logical:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [lmt-udev:23605]
Pid: 23605, comm: lmt-udev Tainted: G WC 3.2.7 #1
EIP: 0060:[<8101eec6>] EFLAGS: 00000202 CPU: 0
EIP is at flush_tlb_others_ipi+0x8a/0xba
Call Trace:
[<8101f0bb>] flush_tlb_mm+0x5e/0x62
[<8101e36c>] pud_populate+0x2c/0x31
[<8101e409>] pgd_alloc+0x98/0xc7
[<8102c881>] mm_init.isra.38+0xcc/0xf3
[<8102cbc2>] dup_mm+0x68/0x34e
[<8139bbae>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
[<810a5b7c>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x26/0xe2
[<8102d421>] ? copy_process+0x556/0xda6
[<8102d641>] copy_process+0x776/0xda6
[<8102dd5e>] do_fork+0xcb/0x1d4
[<810a8c96>] ? do_sync_write+0xd3/0xd3
[<810a94ab>] ? vfs_read+0x95/0xa2
[<81008850>] sys_clone+0x20/0x25
[<8139d8c5>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x30
[<8139d7f7>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

Before the softlock, we see the following kernel warning:

WARNING: at ../../arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:113 default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x58/0x73()
Pid: 23605, comm: lmt-udev Tainted: G C 3.2.7 #1
Call Trace:
[<8102e666>] warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x7d
[<81016c36>] ? default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x58/0x73
[<8102e68f>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x18
[<81016c36>] default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x58/0x73
[<8101eec2>] flush_tlb_others_ipi+0x86/0xba
[<8101f0bb>] flush_tlb_mm+0x5e/0x62
[<8101e36c>] pud_populate+0x2c/0x31
[<8101e409>] pgd_alloc+0x98/0xc7
[<8102c881>] mm_init.isra.38+0xcc/0xf3
[<8102cbc2>] dup_mm+0x68/0x34e
[<8139bbae>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
[<810a5b7c>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x26/0xe2
[<8102d421>] ? copy_process+0x556/0xda6
[<8102d641>] copy_process+0x776/0xda6
[<8102dd5e>] do_fork+0xcb/0x1d4
[<810a8c96>] ? do_sync_write+0xd3/0xd3
[<810a94ab>] ? vfs_read+0x95/0xa2
[<81008850>] sys_clone+0x20/0x25
[<8139d8c5>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x30
[<8139d7f7>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

So we are sending an IPI to a cpu which is now offline. Once a cpu is offline,
it will no longer respond to IPIs. This explains the softlockup.

A cpu in the mm_cpumask could go offline before we send the invalidate
IPI causing us to wait forever. Avoid this by sending the IPI to only the
online cpus.

[Since flush_tlb_others_ipi() is always called with preempt disabled, it is
not possible for a CPU to go offline once we enter this function, because
CPU offline goes through the stop_machine() stuff (which cannot proceed until
all preempt disabled sections are exited). So we don't have to worry about
any race between CPU offline and the target cpumask calculation in
flush_tlb_others_ipi().]

Addresses http://crosbug.com/31737

Reported-and-debugged-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 5e57e11..9d387a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -186,7 +186,11 @@ static void flush_tlb_others_ipi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,

f->flush_mm = mm;
f->flush_va = va;
- if (cpumask_andnot(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask), cpumask, cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()))) {
+
+ cpumask_and(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask), cpumask, cpu_online_mask);
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask));
+
+ if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask))) {
/*
* We have to send the IPI only to
* CPUs affected.

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