[PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Cédric Le Goater]

On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.

We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
at startup.

Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
---

This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.

Version 1.7 seems immune. 

---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
@@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
 		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
 		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
 
-		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
-		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
-			continue;
-
 		/*
 		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
 		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
-- 
2.31.1

[PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Cédric Le Goater]

On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.

We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
at startup.

Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
---

This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.

Version 1.7 seems immune. 

---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
@@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
 		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
 		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
 
-		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
-		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
-			continue;
-
 		/*
 		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
 		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
-- 
2.31.1

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Srikar Dronamraju]

* C?dric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> [2021-06-29 15:15:42]:

> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
> 
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.

Thanks for quickly coming up with the fix.

> 
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>

Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
> 
> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Srikar Dronamraju]

* C?dric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> [2021-06-29 15:15:42]:

> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
> 
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.

Thanks for quickly coming up with the fix.

> 
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>

Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
> 
> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Laurent Vivier]

On 29/06/2021 15:15, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
>
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
>
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
>
> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,

Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Laurent Vivier]

On 29/06/2021 15:15, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
>
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
>
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
>
> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,

Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Laurent Vivier]

On 29/06/2021 15:15, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
> 
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
> 
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
> 
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
> 
> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
> 

What happened to this fix? Will it be merged?

Thanks,
Laurent

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Laurent Vivier]

On 29/06/2021 15:15, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
> 
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
> 
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
> 
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
> 
> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
> 

What happened to this fix? Will it be merged?

Thanks,
Laurent

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Michael Ellerman]

Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> writes:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
>
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
>
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.

Breaking userspace is usually frowned upon, even if it is irqbalance.

If CPU-less nodes appeared in /sys/devices/system/node would that fix
it? Could we do that or is that not possible for other reasons?

> Version 1.7 seems immune. 

Which was released in August 2020.

Looks like some distros still ship 1.6, I take it you're not sure if
that is broken or not.

cheers

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Michael Ellerman]

Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> writes:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
>
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
>
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.

Breaking userspace is usually frowned upon, even if it is irqbalance.

If CPU-less nodes appeared in /sys/devices/system/node would that fix
it? Could we do that or is that not possible for other reasons?

> Version 1.7 seems immune. 

Which was released in August 2020.

Looks like some distros still ship 1.6, I take it you're not sure if
that is broken or not.

cheers

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 8/2/21 8:37 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> writes:
>> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
>> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
>> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>>
>> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
>> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
>> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
>> at startup.
>>
>> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
>> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
>> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
>> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
>> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
>> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
> 
> Breaking userspace is usually frowned upon, even if it is irqbalance.
>
> If CPU-less nodes appeared in /sys/devices/system/node would that fix
> it? Could we do that or is that not possible for other reasons?
> 
>> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> Which was released in August 2020.
> 
> Looks like some distros still ship 1.6, I take it you're not sure if
> that is broken or not.

I did a bisect on irqbalance and the "bad" commit was introduced between 
version 1.7 and version 1.8 :

  commit 31dea01f3a47 ("Also fetch node info for non-PCI devices") 
  https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/commit/31dea01f3a47aa6374560638486879e5129f9c94

which was backported on RHEL 8 in RPM irqbalance-1.4.0-6.el8.

Any distro using irqbalance <= 1.7 without the patch above is fine. 

Since irqbalance handled cleanly irqs referencing offline nodes before 
this patch, I am inclined to think that the irqbalance fix is incomplete. 
Unfortunately, the commit log lacks some context on the non-PCI devices. 

Thanks,

C. 

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 8/2/21 8:37 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> writes:
>> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
>> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
>> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>>
>> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
>> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
>> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
>> at startup.
>>
>> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
>> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
>> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
>> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
>> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
>> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.
> 
> Breaking userspace is usually frowned upon, even if it is irqbalance.
>
> If CPU-less nodes appeared in /sys/devices/system/node would that fix
> it? Could we do that or is that not possible for other reasons?
> 
>> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> Which was released in August 2020.
> 
> Looks like some distros still ship 1.6, I take it you're not sure if
> that is broken or not.

I did a bisect on irqbalance and the "bad" commit was introduced between 
version 1.7 and version 1.8 :

  commit 31dea01f3a47 ("Also fetch node info for non-PCI devices") 
  https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/commit/31dea01f3a47aa6374560638486879e5129f9c94

which was backported on RHEL 8 in RPM irqbalance-1.4.0-6.el8.

Any distro using irqbalance <= 1.7 without the patch above is fine. 

Since irqbalance handled cleanly irqs referencing offline nodes before 
this patch, I am inclined to think that the irqbalance fix is incomplete. 
Unfortunately, the commit log lacks some context on the non-PCI devices. 

Thanks,

C. 

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 6/29/21 3:15 PM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
> 
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
> 
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
> 
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.

This is an irqbalance regression due to :

  https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/pull/172

I will report through an issue. 

Anyhow, there is a better approach which is to allocate IPIs for all 
nodes at boot time and do the mapping on demand. Removing the mapping 
on last use seems more complex though. 

I will send a v2 after some tests.  

Thanks,

C.

> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
> 

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: Do not skip CPU-less nodes when creating the IPIs

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 6/29/21 3:15 PM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
> 
> We could create the node IPI on demand but it is a bit complex because
> this code would be called under bringup_up() and some IRQ locking is
> being done. The simplest solution is to create the IPIs for all nodes
> at startup.
> 
> Fixes: 7dcc37b3eff9 ("powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13
> Reported-by: Geetika Moolchandani <Geetika.Moolchandani1@ibm.com>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
> 
> This patch breaks old versions of irqbalance (<= v1.4). Possible nodes
> are collected from /sys/devices/system/node/ but CPU-less nodes are
> not listed there. When interrupts are scanned, the link representing
> the node structure is NULL and segfault occurs.

This is an irqbalance regression due to :

  https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/pull/172

I will report through an issue. 

Anyhow, there is a better approach which is to allocate IPIs for all 
nodes at boot time and do the mapping on demand. Removing the mapping 
on last use seems more complex though. 

I will send a v2 after some tests.  

Thanks,

C.

> Version 1.7 seems immune. 
> 
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index f3b16ed48b05..5d2c58dba57e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1143,10 +1143,6 @@ static int __init xive_request_ipi(void)
>  		struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
>  		struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
>  
> -		/* Skip nodes without CPUs */
> -		if (cpumask_empty(cpumask_of_node(node)))
> -			continue;
> -
>  		/*
>  		 * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
>  		 * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
>