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x86/reboot: Fix a warning message triggered by stop_other_cpus()
authorFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Wed, 30 May 2012 15:15:41 +0000 (23:15 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:03:23 +0000 (12:03 +0200)
commit55c844a4dd16a4d1fdc0cf2a283ec631a02ec448
tree97d021939f6092a91139476bfed72d094d37f75b
parent7071f6b2889bb41bea61891d8a3e6e70517ef5e6
x86/reboot: Fix a warning message triggered by stop_other_cpus()

When rebooting our 24 CPU Westmere servers with 3.4-rc6, we
always see this warning msg:

Restarting system.
machine restart
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:125
native_smp_send_reschedule+0x74/0xa7() Hardware name: X8DTN
Modules linked in: igb [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 1, comm: systemd-shutdow Not tainted 3.4.0-rc6+ #22
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8102a41f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0x96
 [<ffffffff8102a44c>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17
 [<ffffffff81018cf7>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x74/0xa7
 [<ffffffff810561c1>] trigger_load_balance+0x279/0x2a6
 [<ffffffff81050112>] scheduler_tick+0xe0/0xe9
 [<ffffffff81036768>] update_process_times+0x60/0x70
 [<ffffffff81062f2f>] tick_sched_timer+0x68/0x92
 [<ffffffff81046e33>] __run_hrtimer+0xb3/0x13c
 [<ffffffff81062ec7>] ? tick_nohz_handler+0xd0/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810474f2>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xdb/0x198
 [<ffffffff81019a35>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x81/0x94
 [<ffffffff81655187>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x67/0x70
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff8101a3c4>] ? default_send_IPI_mask_allbutself_phys+0xb4/0xc4
 [<ffffffff8101c680>] physflat_send_IPI_allbutself+0x12/0x14
 [<ffffffff81018db4>] native_nmi_stop_other_cpus+0x8a/0xd6
 [<ffffffff810188ba>] native_machine_shutdown+0x50/0x67
 [<ffffffff81018926>] machine_shutdown+0xa/0xc
 [<ffffffff8101897e>] native_machine_restart+0x20/0x32
 [<ffffffff810189b0>] machine_restart+0xa/0xc
 [<ffffffff8103b196>] kernel_restart+0x47/0x4c
 [<ffffffff8103b2e6>] sys_reboot+0x13e/0x17c
 [<ffffffff8164e436>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x10/0x12
 [<ffffffff810fcac9>] ? bdi_queue_work+0xcf/0xd8
 [<ffffffff810fe82f>] ? __bdi_start_writeback+0xae/0xb7
 [<ffffffff810e0d64>] ? iterate_supers+0xa3/0xb7
 [<ffffffff816547a2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
---[ end trace 320af5cb1cb60c5b ]---

The root cause seems to be the
default_send_IPI_mask_allbutself_phys() takes quite some time (I
measured it could be several ms) to complete sending NMIs to all
the other 23 CPUs, and for HZ=250/1000 system, the time is long
enough for a timer interrupt to happen, which will in turn
trigger to kick load balance to a stopped CPU and cause this
warning in native_smp_send_reschedule().

So disabling the local irq before stop_other_cpu() can fix this
problem (tested 25 times reboot ok), and it is fine as there
should be nobody caring the timer interrupt in such reboot
stage.

The latest 3.4 kernel slightly changes this behavior by sending
REBOOT_VECTOR first and only send NMI_VECTOR if the REBOOT_VCTOR
fails, and this patch is still needed to prevent the problem.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120530231541.4c13433a@feng-i7
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c