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Re: [Xen-devel] Shutdown panic in disable_nonboot_cpus after cpupool-numa-split



On 07/28/2014 10:36 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
On 07.07.2014 16:43, Stefan Bader wrote:
On 07.07.2014 16:28, Juergen Gross wrote:
On 07/07/2014 04:08 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
On 07.07.2014 15:03, Jürgen Groß wrote:
On 07/07/2014 02:49 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
On 07.07.2014 14:38, Jürgen Groß wrote:
On 07/07/2014 02:00 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
On 07/07/14 12:33, Stefan Bader wrote:
I recently noticed that I get a  panic (rebooting the system) on shutdown in
some
    > cases. This happened only on my AMD system and also not all the time.
Finally
    > realized that it is related to the use of using cpupool-numa-split
    > (libxl with xen-4.4 maybe, but not 100% sure 4.3 as well).
    >
    > What happens is that on shutdown the hypervisor runs
disable_nonboot_cpus which
    > call cpu_down for each online cpu. There is a BUG_ON in the code for
the case of
    > cpu_down returning -EBUSY. This happens in my case as soon as the
first cpu that
    > has been moved to pool-1 by cpupool-numa-split is attempted. The
error is
    > returned by running the notifier_call_chain and I suspect that ends
up calling
    > cpupool_cpu_remove which always returns EBUSY for cpus not in pool0.
    >
    > I am not sure which end needs to be fixed but looping over all online
cpus in
    > disable_nonboot_cpus sounds plausible. So maybe the check for pool-0 in
    > cpupool_cpu_remove is wrong...?
    >
    > -Stefan

Hmm yes - this looks completely broken.

cpupool_cpu_remove() only has a single caller which is from cpu_down(),
and will unconditionally fail for cpus outside of the default pool.

It is not obvious at all how this is supposed to work, and the comment
beside cpupool_cpu_remove() doesn't help.

Can you try the following (only compile tested) patch, which looks
plausibly like it might DTRT.  The for_each_cpupool() is a little nastly
but there appears to be no cpu_to_cpupool mapping available.

Your patch has the disadvantage to support hot-unplug of the last cpu in
a cpupool. The following should work, however:

Disadvantage and support sounded a bit confusing. But I think it means
hot-unplugging the last cpu of a pool is bad and should not be working.

Correct.



diff --git a/xen/common/cpupool.c b/xen/common/cpupool.c
index 4a0e569..73249d3 100644
--- a/xen/common/cpupool.c
+++ b/xen/common/cpupool.c
@@ -471,12 +471,24 @@ static void cpupool_cpu_add(unsigned int cpu)
     */
    static int cpupool_cpu_remove(unsigned int cpu)
    {
-    int ret = 0;
+    int ret = -EBUSY;
+    struct cpupool **c;

        spin_lock(&cpupool_lock);
-    if ( !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpupool0->cpu_valid))
-        ret = -EBUSY;
+    if ( cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpupool0->cpu_valid) )
+        ret = 0;
        else
+    {
+        for_each_cpupool(c)
+        {
+            if ( cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, (*c)->cpu_suspended ) )

The rest seems to keep the semantics the same as before (though does that mean
unplugging the last cpu of pool-0 is ok?) But why testing for suspended here to
succeed (and not valid)?

Testing valid would again enable to remove the last cpu of a cpupool in
case of hotplugging. cpu_suspended is set if all cpus are to be removed
due to shutdown, suspend to ram/disk, ...

Ah, ok. Thanks for the detail explanation. So I was trying this change in
parallel and can confirm that it gets rid of the panic on shutdown. But when I
try to offline any cpu in pool1 (if echoing 0 into /sys/devices/xen_cpu/xen_cpu?
is the correct method) I always get EBUSY. IOW I cannot hot-unplug any cpu that
is in a pool other than 0. It does only work after removing it from pool1, then
add it to pool0 and then echo 0 into online.

That's how it was designed some years ago. I don't want to change the
behavior in the hypervisor. Adding some tool support could make sense,
however.

Ok, so in that case everything works as expected and the change fixes the
currently broken shutdown and could be properly submitted for inclusion (with my
tested-by).


Is this needing something from my side to do? I could re-submit the whole patch
but it since it is Juergen's work it felt a little rude to do so.

Patch is already in xen-unstable/staging.


Juergen


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