linux/Documentation/timers
Oleg Nesterov 5097cbcb38 sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash when the boot CPU is nohz_full
Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst states that the "nohz_full=" mask must not
include the boot CPU, which is no longer true after:

  08ae95f4fd ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full").

However after:

  aae17ebb53 ("workqueue: Avoid using isolated cpus' timers on queue_delayed_work")

the kernel will crash at boot time in this case; housekeeping_any_cpu()
returns an invalid CPU number until smp_init() brings the first
housekeeping CPU up.

Change housekeeping_any_cpu() to check the result of cpumask_any_and() and
return smp_processor_id() in this case.

This is just the simple and backportable workaround which fixes the
symptom, but smp_processor_id() at boot time should be safe at least for
type == HK_TYPE_TIMER, this more or less matches the tick_do_timer_boot_cpu
logic.

There is no worry about cpu_down(); tick_nohz_cpu_down() will not allow to
offline tick_do_timer_cpu (the 1st online housekeeping CPU).

Fixes: aae17ebb53 ("workqueue: Avoid using isolated cpus' timers on queue_delayed_work")
Reported-by: Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411143905.GA19288@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240402105847.GA24832@redhat.com/
2024-04-28 10:07:12 +02:00
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highres.rst
hpet.rst
hrtimers.rst
index.rst
no_hz.rst sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash when the boot CPU is nohz_full 2024-04-28 10:07:12 +02:00
timekeeping.rst
timers-howto.rst