sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -> idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 55b2d9399e12..9d00f4958bde 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8227,7 +8227,7 @@ void show_state_filter(unsigned long state_filter)
  * NOTE: this function does not set the idle thread's NEED_RESCHED
  * flag, to make booting more robust.
  */
-void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
+void __init init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 	unsigned long flags;