Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1] xen: avoid crash in disable_hotplug_cpu

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Wed, 5 Sep 2018 12:55:58 +0200
schrieb Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>:

> Instead of trying to fight the symptoms, I think avoiding to offline
> the last cpu would make more sense.

Well, apparently the fix is to leave cpu#0 online because of a backtrace like 
that:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 83 at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:159 cpudl_clear+0xa5/0xb0
Workqueue: events cpuset_hotplug_workfn
RIP: e030:cpudl_clear+0xa5/0xb0
Code: 8b 43 48 c7 44 28 0c ff ff ff ff e8 d5 fd ff ff 48 8d 43 08 f0 4c 0f ab 
20 4c 89 ee 48 89 df 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d e9 0b 3b 79 00 <0f> 0b e9 76 ff ff ff 0f 
1f 40 00 66 66 66 66 90 41 56 49 89 d6 41
RSP: e02b:ffffc900411cbc40 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: ffffffff810d09a0 RBX: ffff880106f1a100 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880106f1a100
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8801068989b0
R10: ffff8801068989d0 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff8801f3800200 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff8801f3823240
FS:  00007fd40d7f08c0(0000) GS:ffff8801f3800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055eff60fe098 CR3: 00000001edf24000 CR4: 0000000000002660
Call Trace:
 rq_offline_dl+0x36/0x80
 set_rq_offline+0x31/0x60
 rq_attach_root+0x98/0xc0
 cpu_attach_domain+0x107/0x320
 partition_sched_domains+0x117/0x347
 ? cpus_read_lock+0x2d/0x50
 rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe4/0x4e0
 ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70
 ? xen_mc_flush+0x102/0x210
 rebuild_sched_domains+0x16/0x30
 cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x45e/0xef0
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x22/0x40
 ? finish_task_switch+0x75/0x250
 process_one_work+0x1fd/0x3e0
 worker_thread+0x2d/0x3d0
 ? rescuer_thread+0x340/0x340
 kthread+0x112/0x130
 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

Initially I did not spot it because the kernel was booted with 'quiet'.

Olaf

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