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commit 2b8272ff4a70b866106ae13c36be7ecbef5d5da2 upstream.
Xiongfeng reported and debugged a self deadlock of the task which initiates
and controls a CPU hot-unplug operation vs. the CFS bandwidth timer.
CPU1 CPU2
T1 sets cfs_quota
starts hrtimer cfs_bandwidth 'period_timer'
T1 is migrated to CPU2
T1 initiates offlining of CPU1
Hotplug operation starts
...
'period_timer' expires and is re-enqueued on CPU1
...
take_cpu_down()
CPU1 shuts down and does not handle timers
anymore. They have to be migrated in the
post dead hotplug steps by the control task.
T1 runs the post dead offline operation
T1 is scheduled out
T1 waits for 'period_timer' to expire
T1 waits there forever if it is scheduled out before it can execute the hrtimer
offline callback hrtimers_dead_cpu().
Cure this by delegating the hotplug control operation to a worker thread on
an online CPU. This takes the initiating user space task, which might be
affected by the bandwidth timer, completely out of the picture.
Reported-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8e785777-03aa-99e1-d20e-e956f5685be6@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h6oqdq0i.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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