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From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: for_each_cpu() is buggy for UP kernel?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 06:24:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KL1P15301MB000678289FE55BA365B3279ABF990@KL1P15301MB0006.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In include/linux/cpumask.h, for_each_cpu is defined like this for UP kernel (CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1):
#define for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) \
for ((cpu) = 0; (cpu) < 1; (cpu)++, (void)mask)
Here 'mask' is ignored, but what if 'mask' contains 0 CPU? -- in this case, the for loop should not
run at all, but with the current code, we run the loop once with cpu==0.
I think I'm seeing a bug in my UP kernel that is caused by the buggy for_each_cpu():
in kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c: tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast(), tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask
contains 0 CPU, but due to the buggy for_each_cpu(), the variable 'next_event' is changed from
its default value KTIME_MAX to "next_event = td->evtdev->next_event"; as a result,
tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast () -> tick_broadcast_set_event() -> clockevents_program_event()
-> pit_next_event() is programming the PIT timer by accident, causing an interrupt storm of PIT
interrupts in some way: I'm seeing that the kernel is receiving ~8000 PIT interrupts per second for
1~5 minutes when the UP kernel boots, and it looks the kernel hangs, but in 1~5 minutes, finally
somehow the kernel can recover and boot up fine. But, occasionally, the kernel just hangs there
forever, receiving ~8000 PIT timers per second.
With the below change in kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c, the interrupt storm will go away:
+#undef for_each_cpu
+#define for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) \
+ for ((cpu) = 0; (((cpu) < 1) && ((mask)[0].bits[0] & 1)); (cpu)++, (void)mask)
Should we fix the for_each_cpu() in include/linux/cpumask.h for UP?
Thanks,
-- Dexuan
next reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-09 6:24 Dexuan Cui [this message]
2018-05-09 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2018-05-13 13:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-05-13 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-14 7:28 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-15 3:02 ` Dexuan Cui
2018-05-15 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-15 20:10 ` Dexuan Cui
2018-05-15 19:52 ` [PATCH] tick/broadcast: Use for_each_cpu() specially on UP kernels Dexuan Cui
2018-05-15 20:48 ` [tip:timers/urgent] " tip-bot for Dexuan Cui
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