Re: [BUG] KCSAN: data-race in tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick / tick_nohz_next_event

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, Mar 07 2024 at 14:43, Sean Anderson wrote:
> On 8/18/23 10:15, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>
> The justification seems to be in tick_sched_do_timer:
>
>         /*
>          * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
>          * concurrency: This happens only when the CPU in charge went
>          * into a long sleep. If two CPUs happen to assign themselves to
>          * this duty, then the jiffies update is still serialized by
>          * jiffies_lock.
>          *
>          * If nohz_full is enabled, this should not happen because the
>          * tick_do_timer_cpu never relinquishes.
>          */
>
> with the other assignment being in tick_nohz_stop_tick. I'm not familiar
> enough with this code to say whether we should be using READ/WRITE_ONCE
> or maybe just data_race (as would be implied by the comment above).

It wants to be READ/WRITE_ONCE(). Something like the untested below,
which applies to -next or the master branch of the tip tree.

Thanks,

        tglx
---

--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  * Copyright(C) 2005-2007, Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
  * Copyright(C) 2006-2007, Timesys Corp., Thomas Gleixner
  */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ int tick_is_oneshot_available(void)
  */
 static void tick_periodic(int cpu)
 {
-	if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu) {
+	if (READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu) == cpu) {
 		raw_spin_lock(&jiffies_lock);
 		write_seqcount_begin(&jiffies_seq);
 
@@ -215,8 +216,8 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tic
 		 * If no cpu took the do_timer update, assign it to
 		 * this cpu:
 		 */
-		if (tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT) {
-			tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
+		if (READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu) == TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT) {
+			WRITE_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu, cpu);
 			tick_next_period = ktime_get();
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
 			/*
@@ -232,7 +233,7 @@ static void tick_setup_device(struct tic
 						!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu)) {
 			tick_take_do_timer_from_boot();
 			tick_do_timer_boot_cpu = -1;
-			WARN_ON(tick_do_timer_cpu != cpu);
+			WARN_ON(READ_ON_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu) != cpu);
 #endif
 		}
 
@@ -406,10 +407,10 @@ void tick_assert_timekeeping_handover(vo
 int tick_cpu_dying(unsigned int dying_cpu)
 {
 	/*
-	 * If the current CPU is the timekeeper, it's the only one that
-	 * can safely hand over its duty. Also all online CPUs are in
-	 * stop machine, guaranteed not to be idle, therefore it's safe
-	 * to pick any online successor.
+	 * If the current CPU is the timekeeper, it's the only one that can
+	 * safely hand over its duty. Also all online CPUs are in stop
+	 * machine, guaranteed not to be idle, therefore there is no
+	 * concurrency and it's safe to pick any online successor.
 	 */
 	if (tick_do_timer_cpu == dying_cpu)
 		tick_do_timer_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  *
  *  Started by: Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar
  */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
@@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ static inline void tick_sched_flag_clear
 
 static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 {
-	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	int tick_cpu, cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if the do_timer duty was dropped. We don't care about
@@ -216,16 +217,18 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct t
 	 * If nohz_full is enabled, this should not happen because the
 	 * 'tick_do_timer_cpu' CPU never relinquishes.
 	 */
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) &&
-	    unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) {
+	tick_cpu = READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu);
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) && unlikely(tick_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(tick_nohz_full_running);
 #endif
-		tick_do_timer_cpu = cpu;
+		WRITE_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu, cpu);
+		tick_cpu = cpu;
 	}
 
 	/* Check if jiffies need an update */
-	if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
+	if (tick_cpu == cpu)
 		tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
 
 	/*
@@ -610,7 +613,7 @@ bool tick_nohz_cpu_hotpluggable(unsigned
 	 * timers, workqueues, timekeeping, ...) on behalf of full dynticks
 	 * CPUs. It must remain online when nohz full is enabled.
 	 */
-	if (tick_nohz_full_running && tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
+	if (tick_nohz_full_running && READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu) == cpu)
 		return false;
 	return true;
 }
@@ -890,6 +893,7 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_next_event(stru
 {
 	u64 basemono, next_tick, delta, expires;
 	unsigned long basejiff;
+	int tick_cpu;
 
 	basemono = get_jiffies_update(&basejiff);
 	ts->last_jiffies = basejiff;
@@ -946,9 +950,9 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_next_event(stru
 	 * Otherwise we can sleep as long as we want.
 	 */
 	delta = timekeeping_max_deferment();
-	if (cpu != tick_do_timer_cpu &&
-	    (tick_do_timer_cpu != TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE ||
-	     !tick_sched_flag_test(ts, TS_FLAG_DO_TIMER_LAST)))
+	tick_cpu = READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu);
+	if (tick_cpu != cpu &&
+	    (tick_cpu != TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE || !tick_sched_flag_test(ts, TS_FLAG_DO_TIMER_LAST)))
 		delta = KTIME_MAX;
 
 	/* Calculate the next expiry time */
@@ -969,6 +973,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_stop_tick(struct t
 	unsigned long basejiff = ts->last_jiffies;
 	u64 basemono = ts->timer_expires_base;
 	bool timer_idle = tick_sched_flag_test(ts, TS_FLAG_STOPPED);
+	int tick_cpu;
 	u64 expires;
 
 	/* Make sure we won't be trying to stop it twice in a row. */
@@ -1006,10 +1011,11 @@ static void tick_nohz_stop_tick(struct t
 	 * do_timer() never gets invoked. Keep track of the fact that it
 	 * was the one which had the do_timer() duty last.
 	 */
-	if (cpu == tick_do_timer_cpu) {
-		tick_do_timer_cpu = TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE;
+	tick_cpu = READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu);
+	if (tick_cpu == cpu) {
+		WRITE_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu, TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE);
 		tick_sched_flag_set(ts, TS_FLAG_DO_TIMER_LAST);
-	} else if (tick_do_timer_cpu != TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE) {
+	} else if (tick_cpu != TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE) {
 		tick_sched_flag_clear(ts, TS_FLAG_DO_TIMER_LAST);
 	}
 
@@ -1172,15 +1178,17 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu,
 		return false;
 
 	if (tick_nohz_full_enabled()) {
+		int tick_cpu = READ_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu);
+
 		/*
 		 * Keep the tick alive to guarantee timekeeping progression
 		 * if there are full dynticks CPUs around
 		 */
-		if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
+		if (tick_cpu == cpu)
 			return false;
 
 		/* Should not happen for nohz-full */
-		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE))
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(tick_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE))
 			return false;
 	}