From 00df35f991914db6b8bde8cf09808e19a9cffc3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:06:55 -0700 Subject: cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler Currently, smpboot_unpark_threads() is invoked before the incoming CPU has been added to the scheduler's runqueue structures. This might potentially cause the unparked kthread to run on the wrong CPU, since the correct CPU isn't fully set up yet. That causes a sporadic, hard to debug boot crash triggering on some systems, reported by Borislav Petkov, and bisected down to: 2a442c9c6453 ("x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code") This patch places smpboot_unpark_threads() in a CPU hotplug notifier with priority set so that these kthreads are unparked just after the CPU has been added to the runqueues. Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- init/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 6f0f1c5f..a12548c 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ static noinline void __init_refok rest_init(void) int pid; rcu_scheduler_starting(); + smpboot_thread_init(); /* * We need to spawn init first so that it obtains pid 1, however * the init task will end up wanting to create kthreads, which, if -- cgit v1.1