Re: [PATCH] smp,cpumask: Don't call functions on offline CPUs

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:15:37PM +0100, Andrew Murray wrote:
> When we are able to allocate a cpumask in on_each_cpu_cond_mask
> we call functions with on_each_cpu_mask - this masks out offline
> cpus via smp_call_function_many.
> 
> However when we fail to allocate a cpumask in on_each_cpu_cond_mask
> we call functions with smp_call_function_single - this will return
> -ENXIO from generic_exec_single if a CPU is offline which will
> result in a WARN_ON_ONCE.
> 
> Let's avoid the WARN by only calling smp_call_function_single when
> the CPU is online and thus making both paths consistent with each
> other.

I'm confused, why are you feeding it offline CPUs to begin with? @mask
shouldn't include them.

Is perhaps the problem that on_each_cpu_cond() uses cpu_onlne_mask
without protection?

Something like so?

diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index f4cf1b0bb3b8..a493b3dfa67f 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -705,8 +707,10 @@ void on_each_cpu_cond(bool (*cond_func)(int cpu, void 
*info),
                        smp_call_func_t func, void *info, bool wait,
                        gfp_t gfp_flags)
 {
+       cpus_read_lock();
        on_each_cpu_cond_mask(cond_func, func, info, wait, gfp_flags,
                                cpu_online_mask);
+       cpus_read_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(on_each_cpu_cond);