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Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:41:51 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] arch_topology: Fix cache attributes detection in
 the CPU hotplug path
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> init_cpu_topology() is called only once at the boot and all the cache
> attributes are detected early for all the possible CPUs. However when
> the CPUs are hotplugged out, the cacheinfo gets removed. While the
> attributes are added back when the CPUs are hotplugged back in as part
> of CPU hotplug state machine, it ends up called quite late after the
> update_siblings_masks() are called in the secondary_start_kernel()
> resulting in wrong llc_sibling_masks.
> 
> Move the call to detect_cache_attributes() inside update_siblings_masks()
> to ensure the cacheinfo is updated before the LLC sibling masks are
> updated. This will fix the incorrect LLC sibling masks generated when
> the CPUs are hotplugged out and hotplugged back in again.
> 
> Reported-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 16 ++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> Hi Conor,
> 
> Ionela reported an issue with the CPU hotplug and as a fix I need to
> move the call to detect_cache_attributes() which I had thought to keep
> it there from first but for no reason had moved it to init_cpu_topology().
> 
> Wonder if this fixes the -ENOMEM on RISC-V as this one is called on the
> cpu in the secondary CPUs init path while init_cpu_topology executed
> detect_cache_attributes() for all possible CPUs much earlier. I think
> this might help as the percpu memory might be initialised in this case.
> 
> Anyways give this a try, also test the CPU hotplug and check if nothing
> is broken on RISC-V. We noticed this bug only on one platform while
> 

arm64, with next-20220718:

...
[    0.823405] Detected PIPT I-cache on CPU1
[    0.824456] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/semaphore.c:164
[    0.824550] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
[    0.824600] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[    0.824633] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[    0.824899] no locks held by swapper/1/0.
[    0.825035] irq event stamp: 0
[    0.825072] hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[    0.826017] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffff800008158870>] copy_process+0x5e0/0x18e4
[    0.826123] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffff800008158870>] copy_process+0x5e0/0x18e4
[    0.826191] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[    0.826764] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc7-next-20220718 #1
[    0.827397] Call trace:
[    0.827456]  dump_backtrace.part.0+0xd4/0xe0
[    0.827574]  show_stack+0x18/0x50
[    0.827625]  dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8
[    0.827678]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[    0.827722]  __might_resched+0x178/0x220
[    0.827778]  __might_sleep+0x48/0x80
[    0.827833]  down_timeout+0x2c/0xa0
[    0.827896]  acpi_os_wait_semaphore+0x68/0x9c
[    0.827952]  acpi_ut_acquire_mutex+0x4c/0xb8
[    0.828008]  acpi_get_table+0x38/0xbc
[    0.828059]  acpi_find_last_cache_level+0x44/0x130
[    0.828112]  init_cache_level+0xb8/0xcc
[    0.828165]  detect_cache_attributes+0x240/0x580
[    0.828217]  update_siblings_masks+0x28/0x270
[    0.828270]  store_cpu_topology+0x64/0x74
[    0.828326]  secondary_start_kernel+0xd0/0x150
[    0.828386]  __secondary_switched+0xb0/0xb4

I know the problem has already been reported, but I think the backtrace
above is slightly different.

Guenter