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Steven Rostedt 282e4b259d sched/rt: Do not pull from current CPU if only one CPU to pull 
commit f73c52a5bc upstream.

Daniel Wagner reported a crash on the BeagleBone Black SoC.

This is a single CPU architecture, and does not have a functional
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() implementation which can crash
the kernel if that is called.

As it only has one CPU, it shouldn't be called, but if the kernel is
compiled for SMP, the push/pull RT scheduling logic now calls it for
irq_work if the one CPU is overloaded, it can use that function to call
itself and crash the kernel.

Ideally, we should disable the SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI) if the system
only has a single CPU. But SCHED_FEAT is a constant if sched debugging
is turned off. Another fix can also be used, and this should also help
with normal SMP machines. That is, do not initiate the pull code if
there's only one RT overloaded CPU, and that CPU happens to be the
current CPU that is scheduling in a lower priority task.

Even on a system with many CPUs, if there's many RT tasks waiting to
run on a single CPU, and that CPU schedules in another RT task of lower
priority, it will initiate the PULL logic in case there's a higher
priority RT task on another CPU that is waiting to run. But if there is
no other CPU with waiting RT tasks, it will initiate the RT pull logic
on itself (as it still has RT tasks waiting to run). This is a wasted
effort.

Not only does this help with SMP code where the current CPU is the only
one with RT overloaded tasks, it should also solve the issue that
Daniel encountered, because it will prevent the PULL logic from
executing, as there's only one CPU on the system, and the check added
here will cause it to exit the RT pull code.

Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 4bdced5c9 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202130454.4cbbfe8d@vmware.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2017-12-20 10:10:21 +01:00
arch arm64: fix CONFIG_DEBUG_WX address reporting 2017-12-20 10:10:20 +01:00
block blk-mq: Avoid that request queue removal can trigger list corruption 2017-12-17 15:08:00 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in 2017-12-20 10:10:17 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: usb: fix reg-property port-number range 2017-12-14 09:53:09 +01:00
drivers scsi: libsas: fix length error in sas_smp_handler() 2017-12-20 10:10:20 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs nfs: don't wait on commit in nfs_commit_inode() if there were no commit requests 2017-12-20 10:10:20 +01:00
include mm, oom_reaper: fix memory corruption 2017-12-20 10:10:18 +01:00
init License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel sched/rt: Do not pull from current CPU if only one CPU to pull 2017-12-20 10:10:21 +01:00
lib dynamic-debug-howto: fix optional/omitted ending line number to be LARGE instead of 0 2017-12-14 09:53:08 +01:00
mm mm, oom_reaper: fix memory corruption 2017-12-20 10:10:18 +01:00
net kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators 2017-12-20 10:10:18 +01:00
samples License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
scripts kbuild: rpm-pkg: fix jobserver unavailable warning 2017-12-14 09:53:13 +01:00
security apparmor: fix leak of null profile name if profile allocation fails 2017-12-14 09:53:06 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add check return value for usb_string() 2017-12-14 09:52:55 +01:00
tools usbip: prevent vhci_hcd driver from leaking a socket pointer address 2017-12-20 10:10:19 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Preserve the revious read from the pending table 2017-12-17 15:07:59 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.7 2017-12-17 15:08:14 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.