[RFC PATCH] kernel/cpu: restart cpu_up when hotplug is disabled

[Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>]

The cpu hotplug path may be utilized while hotplug is disabled for a
brief moment leading to failures. As an example, attempts to perform
cpu hotplug by userspace soon after boot may race with pci_device_probe
leading to inconsistent results.

Proposed idea:
Call restart_syscall instead of returning -EBUSY since
cpu_hotplug_disabled seems to only have a positive value
for short, temporary amounts of time.

Does anyone see any serious problems with this?

Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/cpu.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 5797c2a7a93f..2992c7d1d24e 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <linux/percpu-rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include <trace/events/power.h>
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
@@ -1401,7 +1402,9 @@ static int cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, enum cpuhp_state target)
 	cpu_maps_update_begin();
 
 	if (cpu_hotplug_disabled) {
-		err = -EBUSY;
+		/* avoid busy looping (5ms of sleep should be enough) */
+		msleep(5);
+		err = restart_syscall();
 		goto out;
 	}
 	if (!cpu_smt_allowed(cpu)) {
-- 
2.27.0