clockevents: Fix cpu_down() race for hrtimer based broadcasting

It was found when doing a hotplug stress test on POWER, that the
machine either hit softlockups or rcu_sched stall warnings.  The
issue was traced to commit:

  7cba160ad789 ("powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management")

which exposed the cpu_down() race with hrtimer based broadcast mode:

  5d1638acb9f6 ("tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast")

The race is the following:

Assume CPU1 is the CPU which holds the hrtimer broadcasting duty
before it is taken down.

	CPU0					CPU1

	cpu_down()				take_cpu_down()
						disable_interrupts()

	cpu_die()

	while (CPU1 != CPU_DEAD) {
		msleep(100);
		switch_to_idle();
		stop_cpu_timer();
		schedule_broadcast();
	}

	tick_cleanup_cpu_dead()
		take_over_broadcast()

So after CPU1 disabled interrupts it cannot handle the broadcast
hrtimer anymore, so CPU0 will be stuck forever.

Fix this by explicitly taking over broadcast duty before cpu_die().

This is a temporary workaround. What we really want is a callback
in the clockevent device which allows us to do that from the dying
CPU by pushing the hrtimer onto a different cpu. That might involve
an IPI and is definitely more complex than this immediate fix.

Changelog was picked up from:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/213

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150330092410.24979.59887.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
[ Merged it to the latest timer tree, renamed the callback, tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index 589868b09aff..f9ff225d53c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ extern void tick_irq_enter(void);
 static inline void tick_irq_enter(void) { }
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST) && defined(CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT)
+extern void hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull(int dead_cpu);
+#else
+static inline void hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull(int dead_cpu) { }
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
 extern int tick_nohz_tick_stopped(void);
 extern void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void);