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authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>2021-05-12 10:46:36 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-05-12 13:01:45 +0200
commitf1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 (patch)
tree591f2066a33afd8327ce2476705c105a65979f18 /kernel/fork.c
parent9f26990074931bbf797373e53104216059b300b1 (diff)
downloadlinux-f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674.tar.bz2
sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled
As pointed out by commit de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread") init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them. As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again. In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at bringup_cpu(). Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible* CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0 between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by idle_thread_get() -> idle_init(). Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove init_idle() from idle_thread_get(). Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle: @begone@ @@ -preempt_disable(); ... cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE); Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index e7fd928fcafe..ace4631b5b54 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2412,7 +2412,7 @@ static inline void init_idle_pids(struct task_struct *idle)
}
}
-struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
+struct task_struct * __init fork_idle(int cpu)
{
struct task_struct *task;
struct kernel_clone_args args = {