Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64

[Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>]

On 12/20/21 11:10 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-12-17 at 11:09 +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:13:16 +0000
>> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2021-12-16 at 16:52 -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>>> On baremetal, I haven't seen an issue. This only seems to have a problem
>>>> with Qemu/KVM.
>>>>
>>>> With 191f08997577 I could boot without issues with and without the
>>>> no_parallel_bringup. Only after I applied e78fa57dd642 did the failure happen.
>>>>
>>>> With e78fa57dd642 I could boot 64 vCPUs pretty consistently, but when I
>>>> jumped to 128 vCPUs it failed again. When I moved the series to
>>>> df9726cb7178, then 64 vCPUs also failed pretty consistently.
>>>>
>>>> Strange thing is it is random. Sometimes (rarely) it works on the first
>>>> boot and then sometimes it doesn't, at which point it will reset and
>>>> reboot 3 or 4 times and then make it past the failure and fully boot.
>>>
>>> Hm, some of that is just artifacts of timing, I'm sure. But now I'm
>>
>> that's most likely the case (there is a race somewhere left).
>> To trigger CPU bringup (hotplug) races, I used to run QEMU guest with
>> heavy vCPU overcommit. It helps to induce unexpected delays at CPU bringup
>> time.
> 
> That last commit which actually enables parallel bringup does *two*
> things. It makes the generic cpuhp code bring all the CPUs through all
> the CPUHP_*_PREPARE stages and then actually brings them up. With that
> test patch I sent, the bringup basically *wasn't* parallel any more;
> they were using the trampoline lock all the way to the point where they
> start waiting on cpu_callin_mask.
> 
> So maybe it's the 'prepare' ordering, like the x2apic one I already
> fixed... but some weirdness that only triggers on some CPUs. Can we
> back out the actual pseudo-parallel bringup and do *only* the prepare
> part, by doing something like this on top...
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ int native_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
>          int ret;
>   
>          /* If parallel AP bringup isn't enabled, perform the first steps now. */
> -       if (!do_parallel_bringup) {
> +       if (1 || !do_parallel_bringup) {
>                  ret = do_cpu_up(cpu, tidle);
>                  if (ret)
>                          return ret;
> @@ -1366,7 +1366,8 @@ int native_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
>   /* Bringup step one: Send INIT/SIPI to the target AP */
>   static int native_cpu_kick(unsigned int cpu)
>   {
> -       return do_cpu_up(cpu, idle_thread_get(cpu));
> +       return 0;
> +       //      return do_cpu_up(cpu, idle_thread_get(cpu));
>   }

Took the tree back to commit df9726cb7178 and then applied this change. 
I'm unable to trigger any kind of failure with this change.

Thanks,
Tom

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