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    [S390] nohz/s390: fix arch_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpus · 39881215
    Heiko Carstens authored
    This fixes the same problem as described in the patch "nohz: fix
    printk_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpus" for the arch_needs_cpu()
    primitive:
    
    arch_needs_cpu() may return 1 if called on offline cpus. When a cpu gets
    offlined it schedules the idle process which, before killing its own cpu,
    will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick().
    That function in turn will call arch_needs_cpu() in order to check if the
    local tick can be disabled. On offline cpus this function should naturally
    return 0 since regardless if the tick gets disabled or not the cpu will be
    dead short after. That is besides the fact that __cpu_disable() should already
    have made sure that no interrupts on the offlined cpu will be delivered anyway.
    
    In this case it prevents tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to call
    select_nohz_load_balancer(). No idea if that really is a problem. However what
    made me debug this is that on 2.6.32 the function get_nohz_load_balancer() is
    used within __mod_timer() to select a cpu on which a timer gets enqueued.
    If arch_needs_cpu() returns 1 then the nohz_load_balancer cpu doesn't get
    updated when a cpu gets offlined. It may contain the cpu number of an offline
    cpu. In turn timers get enqueued on an offline cpu and not very surprisingly
    they never expire and cause system hangs.
    
    This has been observed 2.6.32 kernels. On current kernels __mod_timer() uses
    get_nohz_timer_target() which doesn't have that problem. However there might
    be other problems because of the too early exit tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
    in case a cpu goes offline.
    
    This specific bug was indrocuded with 3c5d92a0 "nohz: Introduce
    arch_needs_cpu".
    
    In this case a cpu hotplug notifier is used to fix the issue in order to keep
    the normal/fast path small. All we need to do is to clear the condition that
    makes arch_needs_cpu() return 1 since it is just a performance improvement
    which is supposed to keep the local tick running for a short period if a cpu
    goes idle. Nothing special needs to be done except for clearing the condition.
    
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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