Re: [PATCH] init/main: Clear boot task idle flag

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 01:01:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:56:47PM -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> > Initial booting is setting the task flag to idle (PF_IDLE) by the call
> > path sched_init() -> init_idle().  Having the task idle and calling
> > call_rcu() in kernel/rcu/tiny.c means that TIF_NEED_RESCHED will be
> > set.  Subsequent calls to any cond_resched() will enable IRQs,
> > potentially earlier than the IRQ setup has completed.  Recent changes
> > have caused just this scenario and IRQs have been enabled early.
> > 
> > This causes a warning later in start_kernel() as interrupts are enabled
> > before they are fully set up.
> > 
> > Fix this issue by clearing the PF_IDLE flag on return from sched_init()
> > and restore the flag in rest_init().  Although the boot task was marked
> > as idle since (at least) d80e4fda576d, I am not sure that it is wrong to
> > do so.  The forced context-switch on idle task was introduced in the
> > tiny_rcu update, so I'm going to claim this fixes 5f6130fa52ee.
> > 
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87v8cv22jh.fsf@mail.lhotse/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMuHMdWpvpWoDa=Ox-do92czYRvkok6_x6pYUH+ZouMcJbXy+Q@mail.gmail.com/
> > Fixes: 5f6130fa52ee ("tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> > Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> > ---
> >  init/main.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > index ad920fac325c..f74772acf612 100644
> > --- a/init/main.c
> > +++ b/init/main.c
> > @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ noinline void __ref __noreturn rest_init(void)
> >  	 */
> >  	rcu_read_lock();
> >  	tsk = find_task_by_pid_ns(pid, &init_pid_ns);
> > -	tsk->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY;
> > +	tsk->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY | PF_IDLE;
> >  	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()));
> >  	rcu_read_unlock();
> >  
> > @@ -938,6 +938,8 @@ void start_kernel(void)
> >  	 * time - but meanwhile we still have a functioning scheduler.
> >  	 */
> >  	sched_init();
> > +	/* Avoid early context switch, rest_init() restores PF_IDLE */
> > +	current->flags &= ~PF_IDLE;
> >  
> >  	if (WARN(!irqs_disabled(),
> >  		 "Interrupts were enabled *very* early, fixing it\n"))
> 
> Hurmph... so since this is about IRQs, would it not make sense to have
> the | PF_IDLE near 'early_boot_irqs_disabled = false' ?
> 
> Or, alternatively, make the tinyrcu thing check that variable?

We could do that, but do we really the decidedly non-idle early boot
sequence designated as idle?

What surprises me is that this is just now showing up.  The ingredients
for this one have been in place for almost 10 years.

							Thanx, Paul