Paul reported a very sporadic, rcutorture induced, workqueue failure.
When the planets align, the workqueue rescuer's self-migrate fails and
then triggers a WARN for running a work on the wrong CPU.
Tejun then figured that set_cpus_allowed_ptr()'s stop_one_cpu() call
could be ignored! When stopper->enabled is false, stop_machine will
insta complete the work, without actually doing the work. Worse, it
will not WARN about this (we really should fix this).
It turns out there is a small window where a freshly online'ed CPU is
marked 'online' but doesn't yet have the stopper task running:
BP AP
bringup_cpu()
__cpu_up(cpu, idle) --> start_secondary()
...
cpu_startup_entry()
bringup_wait_for_ap()
wait_for_ap_thread() <-- cpuhp_online_idle()
while (1)
do_idle()
... available to run kthreads ...
stop_machine_unpark()
stopper->enable = true;
Close this by moving the stop_machine_unpark() into
cpuhp_online_idle(), such that the stopper thread is ready before we
start the idle loop and schedule.
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Debugged-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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