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On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 03:22:13PM +0800, Kuyo Chang wrote:
> So, the potential race scenario is:
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> // doing migrate_swap(cpu0/cpu1)
> stop_two_cpus()
> ...
> // doing _cpu_down()
> sched_cpu_deactivate()
> set_cpu_active(cpu, false);
> balance_push_set(cpu, true);
> cpu_stop_queue_two_works
> __cpu_stop_queue_work(stopper1,...);
> __cpu_stop_queue_work(stopper2,..);
> stop_cpus_in_progress -> true
> preempt_enable();
> ...
> 1st balance_push
> stop_one_cpu_nowait
> cpu_stop_queue_work
> __cpu_stop_queue_work
> list_add_tail -> 1st add push_work
> wake_up_q(&wakeq); -> "wakeq is empty.
> This implies that the stopper is at wakeq@migrate_swap."
> preempt_disable
> wake_up_q(&wakeq);
> wake_up_process // wakeup migrate/0
> try_to_wake_up
> ttwu_queue
> ttwu_queue_cond ->meet below case
> if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
> return false;
> ttwu_do_activate
> //migrate/0 wakeup done
> wake_up_process // wakeup migrate/1
> try_to_wake_up
> ttwu_queue
> ttwu_queue_cond
> ttwu_queue_wakelist
> __ttwu_queue_wakelist
> __smp_call_single_queue
> preempt_enable();
>
> 2nd balance_push
> stop_one_cpu_nowait
> cpu_stop_queue_work
> __cpu_stop_queue_work
> list_add_tail -> 2nd add push_work, so the double list add is detected
> ...
> ...
> cpu1 get ipi, do sched_ttwu_pending, wakeup migrate/1
>
So this balance_push() is part of schedule(), and schedule() is supposed
to switch to stopper task, but because of this race condition, stopper
task is stuck in WAKING state and not actually visible to be picked.
Therefore CPU1 can do another schedule() and end up doing another
balance_push() even though the last one hasn't been done yet.
This is a confluence of fail, where both wake_q and ttwu_wakelist can
cause crucial wakeups to be delayed, resulting in the malfunction of
balance_push.
Since there is only a single stopper thread to be woken, the wake_q
doesn't really add anything here, and can be removed in favour of
direct wakeups of the stopper thread.
Then add a clause to ttwu_queue_cond() to ensure the stopper threads
are never queued / delayed.
Of all 3 moving parts, the last addition was the balance_push()
machinery, so pick that as the point the bug was introduced.
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