From f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Schneider Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 10:46:36 +0100 Subject: sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled As pointed out by commit de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread") init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them. As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again. In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at bringup_cpu(). Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible* CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0 between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by idle_thread_get() -> idle_init(). Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove init_idle() from idle_thread_get(). Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle: @begone@ @@ -preempt_disable(); ... cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE); Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com --- arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/alpha/kernel') diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c index f4dd9f3f3001..4b2575f936d4 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c @@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ smp_callin(void) DBGS(("smp_callin: commencing CPU %d current %p active_mm %p\n", cpuid, current, current->active_mm)); - preempt_disable(); cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE); } -- cgit v1.2.3