From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>,
Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <quic_pheragu@quicinc.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Murali Nalajala <quic_mnalajal@quicinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: paravirt: Disable IRQs during stolen_time_cpu_down_prepare
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:44:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0737998d-3006-5866-5ea1-dcfef0cfeb32@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220420204417.155194-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
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On 20.04.22 22:44, Elliot Berman wrote:
> From: Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <quic_pheragu@quicinc.com>
>
> During hotplug, the stolen time data structure is unmapped and memset.
> There is a possibility of the timer IRQ being triggered before memset
> and stolen time is getting updated as part of this timer IRQ handler. This
> causes the below crash in timer handler -
>
> [ 3457.473139][ C5] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc03df05148
> ...
> [ 3458.154398][ C5] Call trace:
> [ 3458.157648][ C5] para_steal_clock+0x30/0x50
> [ 3458.162319][ C5] irqtime_account_process_tick+0x30/0x194
> [ 3458.168148][ C5] account_process_tick+0x3c/0x280
> [ 3458.173274][ C5] update_process_times+0x5c/0xf4
> [ 3458.178311][ C5] tick_sched_timer+0x180/0x384
> [ 3458.183164][ C5] __run_hrtimer+0x160/0x57c
> [ 3458.187744][ C5] hrtimer_interrupt+0x258/0x684
> [ 3458.192698][ C5] arch_timer_handler_virt+0x5c/0xa0
> [ 3458.198002][ C5] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xdc/0x414
> [ 3458.203385][ C5] handle_domain_irq+0xa8/0x168
> [ 3458.208241][ C5] gic_handle_irq.34493+0x54/0x244
> [ 3458.213359][ C5] call_on_irq_stack+0x40/0x70
> [ 3458.218125][ C5] do_interrupt_handler+0x60/0x9c
> [ 3458.223156][ C5] el1_interrupt+0x34/0x64
> [ 3458.227560][ C5] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x1c/0x2c
> [ 3458.232503][ C5] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80
> [ 3458.236736][ C5] free_vmap_area_noflush+0x108/0x39c
> [ 3458.242126][ C5] remove_vm_area+0xbc/0x118
> [ 3458.246714][ C5] vm_remove_mappings+0x48/0x2a4
> [ 3458.251656][ C5] __vunmap+0x154/0x278
> [ 3458.255796][ C5] stolen_time_cpu_down_prepare+0xc0/0xd8
> [ 3458.261542][ C5] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x248/0xc34
> [ 3458.266842][ C5] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x1c4/0x248
> [ 3458.271696][ C5] smpboot_thread_fn+0x1b0/0x400
> [ 3458.276638][ C5] kthread+0x17c/0x1e0
> [ 3458.280691][ C5] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>
> As a fix, disable the IRQs during hotplug until we unmap and memset the
> stolen time structure.
This will work for the call chain of your observed crash, but are
you sure that para_steal_clock() can't be called from another cpu
concurrently?
In case you verified this can't happen, you can add my:
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Otherwise you either need to use RCU for doing the memunmap(), or a
lock to protect stolen_time_region.
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-21 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-20 20:44 Elliot Berman
2022-04-21 7:44 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2022-04-21 9:10 ` Will Deacon
2022-04-22 19:03 ` Elliot Berman
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