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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-03-14 11:40:46 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-03-18 16:51:06 +0300
commit551adc60573cb68e3d55cacca9ba1b7437313df7 (patch)
treeee3fd31639e6e49cc73014ac3fcfc0915b8f7d0f /arch/x86/include
parentf508a5ba7a4570418df6cfd68fe663ffdef2be63 (diff)
downloadlinux-551adc60573cb68e3d55cacca9ba1b7437313df7.tar.xz
x86/irq: Cure live lock in fixup_irqs()
Harry reported, that he's able to trigger a system freeze with cpu hot unplug. The freeze turned out to be a live lock caused by recent changes in irq_force_complete_move(). When fixup_irqs() and from there irq_force_complete_move() is called on the dying cpu, then all other cpus are in stop machine an wait for the dying cpu to complete the teardown. If there is a move of an interrupt pending then irq_force_complete_move() sends the cleanup IPI to the cpus in the old_domain mask and waits for them to clear the mask. That's obviously impossible as those cpus are firmly stuck in stop machine with interrupts disabled. I should have known that, but I completely overlooked it being concentrated on the locking issues around the vectors. And the existance of the call to __irq_complete_move() in the code, which actually sends the cleanup IPI made it reasonable to wait for that cleanup to complete. That call was bogus even before the recent changes as it was just a pointless distraction. We have to look at two cases: 1) The move_in_progress flag of the interrupt is set This means the ioapic has been updated with the new vector, but it has not fired yet. In theory there is a race: set_ioapic(new_vector) <-- Interrupt is raised before update is effective, i.e. it's raised on the old vector. So if the target cpu cannot handle that interrupt before the old vector is cleaned up, we get a spurious interrupt and in the worst case the ioapic irq line becomes stale, but my experiments so far have only resulted in spurious interrupts. But in case of cpu hotplug this should be a non issue because if the affinity update happens right before all cpus rendevouz in stop machine, there is no way that the interrupt can be blocked on the target cpu because all cpus loops first with interrupts enabled in stop machine, so the old vector is not yet cleaned up when the interrupt fires. So the only way to run into this issue is if the delivery of the interrupt on the apic/system bus would be delayed beyond the point where the target cpu disables interrupts in stop machine. I doubt that it can happen, but at least there is a theroretical chance. Virtualization might be able to expose this, but AFAICT the IOAPIC emulation is not as stupid as the real hardware. I've spent quite some time over the weekend to enforce that situation, though I was not able to trigger the delayed case. 2) The move_in_progress flag is not set and the old_domain cpu mask is not empty. That means, that an interrupt was delivered after the change and the cleanup IPI has been sent to the cpus in old_domain, but not all CPUs have responded to it yet. In both cases we can assume that the next interrupt will arrive on the new vector, so we can cleanup the old vectors on the cpus in the old_domain cpu mask. Fixes: 98229aa36caa "x86/irq: Plug vector cleanup race" Reported-by: Harry Junior <harryjr@outlook.fr> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1603140931430.3657@nanos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h
index f564d2b2275f..b90e1053049b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ struct irq_alloc_info {
struct irq_cfg {
unsigned int dest_apicid;
u8 vector;
+ u8 old_vector;
};
extern struct irq_cfg *irq_cfg(unsigned int irq);