sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled
authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Wed, 12 May 2021 09:46:36 +0000 (10:46 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:55:50 +0000 (16:55 +0200)
commit3c51d82d0b7862d7d246016c74b4390fb1fa1f11
treef4b4c9b521eeb30e8c93d1890ab37dd4d8b3f640
parentf8607f5ebe872f2d1845486e515cec84294cd1fb
sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled

[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -> idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
25 files changed:
arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c
arch/arc/kernel/smp.c
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
arch/csky/kernel/smp.c
arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/mips/kernel/smp.c
arch/openrisc/kernel/smp.c
arch/parisc/kernel/smp.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/s390/include/asm/preempt.h
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
arch/sh/kernel/smp.c
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_32.c
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/smp.c
include/asm-generic/preempt.h
init/main.c
kernel/fork.c
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/smpboot.c