lazy tlb: fix hotplug exit race with MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN

Commit Message

Herton R. Krzesinski Nov. 1, 2024, 9:49 p.m. UTC

From: Nicholas Piggin <[e-mail]>

CPU unplug first calls __cpu_disable(), and that's where powerpc calls
cleanup_cpu_mmu_context(), which clears this CPU from mm_cpumask() of all
mms in the system.

However this CPU may still be using a lazy tlb mm, and its mm_cpumask bit
will be cleared from it.  The CPU does not switch away from the lazy tlb
mm until arch_cpu_idle_dead() calls idle_task_exit().

If that user mm exits in this window, it will not be subject to the lazy
tlb mm shootdown and may be freed while in use as a lazy mm by the CPU
that is being unplugged.

cleanup_cpu_mmu_context() could be moved later, but it looks better to
move the lazy tlb mm switching earlier.  The problem with doing the lazy
mm switching in idle_task_exit() is explained in commit bf2c59fce4074
("sched/core: Fix illegal RCU from offline CPUs"), which added a wart to
switch away from the mm but leave it set in active_mm to be cleaned up
later.

So instead, switch away from the lazy tlb mm at sched_cpu_wait_empty(),
which is the last hotplug state before teardown (CPUHP_AP_SCHED_WAIT_EMPTY).
This CPU will never switch to a user thread from this point, so it has no
chance to pick up a new lazy tlb mm.  This removes the lazy tlb mm handling
wart in CPU unplug.

With this, idle_task_exit() is not needed anymore and can be cleaned up.
This leaves the prototype alone, to be cleaned after this change.

herton: took the suggestions from https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jzvyprsw.ffs@tglx/
and made adjustments on the initial patch proposed by Nicholas.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/
Fixes: 2655421ae69fa ("lazy tlb: shoot lazies, non-refcounting lazy tlb mm reference handling scheme")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <[e-mail]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[e-mail]>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <[e-mail]>
---
 include/linux/sched/hotplug.h |  4 ----
 kernel/cpu.c                  | 11 ++++++-----
 kernel/sched/core.c           | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Herton: I contacted Nicholas by email, he was ok with me going ahead
and posting this, I saw the original patch was stalled/didn't went forward. Thus 
I'm posting this but keeping his From/authorship, since he is original
author of the patch, so we can have this moving forward. I have a report
and also reproduced the warning similar to the one reported at
https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/469 - which can be triggered
doing cpu offline/online loop with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled. This patch fixes
the problem. I updated the changelog/patch based on the suggestions given and to
the best of my knowledge/investigation on this issue, thorough review is
appreciated.

If this is ok then I can submit a followup for this to cleanup idle_task_exit().

Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/hotplug.h b/include/linux/sched/hotplug.h
index 412cdaba33eb..17e04859b9a4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/hotplug.h
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@  extern int sched_cpu_dying(unsigned int cpu);
 # define sched_cpu_dying	NULL
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-extern void idle_task_exit(void);
-#else
 static inline void idle_task_exit(void) {}
-#endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_HOTPLUG_H */
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index d293d52a3e00..fb4f46885cb2 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -904,13 +904,14 @@  static int finish_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 	struct task_struct *idle = idle_thread_get(cpu);
 	struct mm_struct *mm = idle->active_mm;
 
-	/*
-	 * idle_task_exit() will have switched to &init_mm, now
-	 * clean up any remaining active_mm state.
+	/* 
+	 * sched_force_init_mm() ensured the use of &init_mm,
+	 * drop that refcount now that the CPU has stopped.
 	 */
-	if (mm != &init_mm)
-		idle->active_mm = &init_mm;
+	WARN_ON(mm != &init_mm);
+	idle->active_mm = NULL;
 	mmdrop_lazy_tlb(mm);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index dbfb5717d6af..8a51acd6d650 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7826,19 +7826,26 @@  void sched_setnuma(struct task_struct *p, int nid)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 /*
- * Ensure that the idle task is using init_mm right before its CPU goes
- * offline.
+ * Invoked on the outgoing CPU in context of the CPU hotplug thread
+ * after ensuring that there are no user space tasks left on the CPU.
+ *
+ * If there is a lazy mm in use on the hotplug thread, drop it and
+ * switch to init_mm.
+ *
+ * The reference count on init_mm is dropped in finish_cpu().
  */
-void idle_task_exit(void)
+static void sched_force_init_mm(void)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->active_mm;
 
-	BUG_ON(cpu_online(smp_processor_id()));
-	BUG_ON(current != this_rq()->idle);
-
 	if (mm != &init_mm) {
-		switch_mm(mm, &init_mm, current);
+		mmgrab_lazy_tlb(&init_mm);
+		local_irq_disable();
+		current->active_mm = &init_mm;
+		switch_mm_irqs_off(mm, &init_mm, current);
+		local_irq_enable();
 		finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
+		mmdrop_lazy_tlb(mm);
 	}
 
 	/* finish_cpu(), as ran on the BP, will clean up the active_mm state */
@@ -7972,6 +7979,10 @@  static void balance_hotplug_wait(void)
 
 #else
 
+static void sched_force_init_mm(void)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void balance_push(struct rq *rq)
 {
 }
@@ -8240,6 +8251,7 @@  int sched_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu)
 int sched_cpu_wait_empty(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	balance_hotplug_wait();
+	sched_force_init_mm();
 	return 0;
 }