From: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>

When tearing down, call timers_dead_cpu() before notify_dead().
There is a hidden dependency between:

 - timers
 - Block multiqueue
 - rcutree

If timers_dead_cpu() comes later than blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify()
that latter function causes a RCU stall.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h |    1 +
 include/linux/timer.h      |    6 ++++++
 kernel/cpu.c               |    5 +++++
 kernel/time/timer.c        |   25 ++-----------------------
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ enum cpuhp_state {
        CPUHP_WORKQUEUE_PREP,
        CPUHP_POWER_NUMA_PREPARE,
        CPUHP_HRTIMERS_PREPARE,
+       CPUHP_TIMERS_DEAD,
        CPUHP_NOTIFY_PREPARE,
        CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU,
        CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD,
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -273,4 +273,10 @@ unsigned long __round_jiffies_up_relativ
 unsigned long round_jiffies_up(unsigned long j);
 unsigned long round_jiffies_up_relative(unsigned long j);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+int timers_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu);
+#else
+#define timers_dead_cpu NULL
+#endif
+
 #endif
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1195,6 +1195,11 @@ static struct cpuhp_step cpuhp_bp_states
                .startup = hrtimers_prepare_cpu,
                .teardown = hrtimers_dead_cpu,
        },
+       [CPUHP_TIMERS_DEAD] = {
+               .name = "timers dead",
+               .startup = NULL,
+               .teardown = timers_dead_cpu,
+       },
        /*
         * Preparatory and dead notifiers. Will be replaced once the notifiers
         * are converted to states.
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ static void migrate_timer_list(struct ti
        }
 }
 
-static void migrate_timers(int cpu)
+int timers_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 {
        struct timer_base *old_base;
        struct timer_base *new_base;
@@ -1831,29 +1831,9 @@ static void migrate_timers(int cpu)
                spin_unlock_irq(&new_base->lock);
                put_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases);
        }
+       return 0;
 }
 
-static int timer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
-                               unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
-{
-       switch (action) {
-       case CPU_DEAD:
-       case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
-               migrate_timers((long)hcpu);
-               break;
-       default:
-               break;
-       }
-
-       return NOTIFY_OK;
-}
-
-static inline void timer_register_cpu_notifier(void)
-{
-       cpu_notifier(timer_cpu_notify, 0);
-}
-#else
-static inline void timer_register_cpu_notifier(void) { }
 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 
 static void __init init_timer_cpu(int cpu)
@@ -1881,7 +1861,6 @@ void __init init_timers(void)
 {
        init_timer_cpus();
        init_timer_stats();
-       timer_register_cpu_notifier();
        open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq);
 }
 


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