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authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>2021-05-12 12:46:36 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-05-12 14:01:45 +0300
commitf1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 (patch)
tree591f2066a33afd8327ce2476705c105a65979f18 /init
parent9f26990074931bbf797373e53104216059b300b1 (diff)
downloadlinux-f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674.tar.xz
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 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/main.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index eb01e121d2f1..7b027d9c5c89 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -941,11 +941,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init __no_sanitize_address start_kernel(void)
* time - but meanwhile we still have a functioning scheduler.
*/
sched_init();
- /*
- * Disable preemption - early bootup scheduling is extremely
- * fragile until we cpu_idle() for the first time.
- */
- preempt_disable();
+
if (WARN(!irqs_disabled(),
"Interrupts were enabled *very* early, fixing it\n"))
local_irq_disable();