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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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.