From: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Will Schmidt <willschm@us.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] preempt_count corruption across H_CEDE call with CONFIG_PREEMPT on pseries
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:28:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819155824.GD2690@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C488CCD.60004@us.ibm.com>
Hi Darren,
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:24:13AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>
> With some instrumentation we were able to determine that the
> preempt_count() appears to change across the extended_cede_processor()
> call. Specifically across the plpar_hcall_norets(H_CEDE) call. On
> PREEMPT_RT we call this with preempt_count=1 and return with
> preempt_count=0xffffffff. On mainline with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, the value
> is different (0x65) but is still incorrect.
I was trying to reproduce this issue on a 2.6.33.7-rt29 kernel. I could
easily reproduce this on the RT kernel and not the non-RT kernel.
However, I hit it every single time I did a cpu online operation. I also
noticed that the issue persists even when I disable H_CEDE by passing
the "cede_offline=0" kernel commandline parameter. Could you pl confirm
if you observe the same in your setup ?
However, the issue still remains. Will spend few cycles looking into
this issue.
>
> Also of interest is that this path
> cpu_idle()->cpu_die()->pseries_mach_cpu_die() to start_secondary()
> enters with a preempt_count=1 if it wasn't corrupted across the hcall.
> The early boot path from _start however appears to call
> start_secondary() with a preempt_count of 0.
>
> The following patch is most certainly not correct, but it does eliminate
> the situation on mainline 100% of the time (there is still a 25%
> reproduction rate on PREEMPT_RT). Can someone comment on:
>
> 1) How can the preempt_count() get mangled across the H_CEDE hcall?
> 2) Should we call preempt_enable() in cpu_idle() prior to cpu_die() ?
>
> Hacked-up-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.33.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.33.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
> +++ linux-2.6.33.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
> @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static void pseries_mach_cpu_die(void)
> * Kernel stack will be reset and start_secondary()
> * will be called to continue the online operation.
> */
> + preempt_count() = 0;
> start_secondary_resume();
> }
> }
>
>
--
Regards,
Ankita Garg (ankita@in.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM India Systems & Technology Labs,
Bangalore, India
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 18:24 [PATCH][RFC] preempt_count corruption across H_CEDE call with CONFIG_PREEMPT on pseries Darren Hart
2010-07-22 18:36 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-22 18:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-10 22:36 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-22 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-22 23:57 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-23 4:44 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-23 5:08 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-07-23 5:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-23 7:07 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-08-05 4:45 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-05 11:06 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-08-05 12:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-07-23 5:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-06 2:19 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-06 5:09 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-08-06 7:13 ` Darren Hart
2010-07-23 14:39 ` Will Schmidt
2010-08-04 13:44 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-19 15:58 ` Ankita Garg [this message]
2010-08-19 18:58 ` Will Schmidt
2010-08-23 22:20 ` Darren Hart
2010-08-31 7:12 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-01 5:54 ` Michael Ellerman
2010-09-01 15:10 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-01 18:47 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-01 19:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-01 20:42 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-02 1:02 ` Michael Neuling
2010-09-02 4:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-02 6:04 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-03 20:10 ` Will Schmidt
2010-09-02 23:04 ` Michael Neuling
2010-09-03 0:08 ` Darren Hart
2010-09-02 3:46 ` Michael Neuling
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