From: Richard Cochran When tearing down, call timers_dead_cpu() before notify_dead(). There is a hidden dependency between: - timers - Block multiqueue - rcutree If timers_dead_cpu() comes later than blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify() that latter function causes a RCU stall. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: John Stultz Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner --- include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 1 + include/linux/timer.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/cpu.c | 5 +++++ kernel/time/timer.c | 25 ++----------------------- 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h +++ b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ enum cpuhp_state { CPUHP_WORKQUEUE_PREP, CPUHP_POWER_NUMA_PREPARE, CPUHP_HRTIMERS_PREPARE, + CPUHP_TIMERS_DEAD, CPUHP_NOTIFY_PREPARE, CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU, CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD, --- a/include/linux/timer.h +++ b/include/linux/timer.h @@ -273,4 +273,10 @@ unsigned long __round_jiffies_up_relativ unsigned long round_jiffies_up(unsigned long j); unsigned long round_jiffies_up_relative(unsigned long j); +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU +int timers_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu); +#else +#define timers_dead_cpu NULL +#endif + #endif --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -1195,6 +1195,11 @@ static struct cpuhp_step cpuhp_bp_states .startup = hrtimers_prepare_cpu, .teardown = hrtimers_dead_cpu, }, + [CPUHP_TIMERS_DEAD] = { + .name = "timers dead", + .startup = NULL, + .teardown = timers_dead_cpu, + }, /* * Preparatory and dead notifiers. Will be replaced once the notifiers * are converted to states. --- a/kernel/time/timer.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c @@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ static void migrate_timer_list(struct ti } } -static void migrate_timers(int cpu) +int timers_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { struct timer_base *old_base; struct timer_base *new_base; @@ -1831,29 +1831,9 @@ static void migrate_timers(int cpu) spin_unlock_irq(&new_base->lock); put_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases); } + return 0; } -static int timer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, - unsigned long action, void *hcpu) -{ - switch (action) { - case CPU_DEAD: - case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN: - migrate_timers((long)hcpu); - break; - default: - break; - } - - return NOTIFY_OK; -} - -static inline void timer_register_cpu_notifier(void) -{ - cpu_notifier(timer_cpu_notify, 0); -} -#else -static inline void timer_register_cpu_notifier(void) { } #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */ static void __init init_timer_cpu(int cpu) @@ -1881,7 +1861,6 @@ void __init init_timers(void) { init_timer_cpus(); init_timer_stats(); - timer_register_cpu_notifier(); open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq); }