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Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/smp: Fix a crash while booting kvm guest with nr_cpus=2

From: Gautham R Shenoy <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-23 06:12:29

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 02:54:17PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
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Aneesh reported a crash with a fairly recent upstream kernel when
booting kernel whose commandline was appended with nr_cpus=2

1:mon> e
cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000008a67bd0]
    pc: c00000000002557c: cpu_to_chip_id+0x3c/0x100
    lr: c000000000058380: start_secondary+0x460/0xb00
    sp: c000000008a67e70
   msr: 8000000000001033
   dar: 10
 dsisr: 80000
  current = 0xc00000000891bb00
  paca    = 0xc0000018ff981f80   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 0, comm = swapper/1
Linux version 5.13.0-rc3-15704-ga050a6d2b7e8 (kvaneesh@ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #433 SMP Tue May 25 02:38:49 CDT 2021
1:mon> t
[link register   ] c000000000058380 start_secondary+0x460/0xb00
[c000000008a67e70] c000000008a67eb0 (unreliable)
[c000000008a67eb0] c0000000000589d4 start_secondary+0xab4/0xb00
[c000000008a67f90] c00000000000c654 start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14

Current code assumes that num_possible_cpus() is always greater than
threads_per_core. However this may not be true when using nr_cpus=2 or
similar options. Handle the case where num_possible_cpus is smaller than
threads_per_core.

Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <redacted>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <redacted>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Fixes: c1e53367dab1 ("powerpc/smp: Cache CPU to chip lookup")
Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Debugged-by: Michael Ellerman [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 6c6e4d934d86..3d6874fe1937 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	}

 	if (cpu_to_chip_id(boot_cpuid) != -1) {
-		int idx = num_possible_cpus() / threads_per_core;
+		int idx = max((int)num_possible_cpus() / threads_per_core, 1);
I think this code was assuming that num_possible_cpus() is a multiple
of threads_per_core.

So, on a system with threads_per_core=8, if we pass nr_cpus=10, we
will still get idx=1. Thus, we will allocate only one entry in
chip_id_lookup_table[] even though there are two cores and
chip_id_lookup_table[] is expected to have one entry per core.

Is this a valid scenario ? If yes, should we use

   idx = DIV_ROUND_UP(num_possible_cpus, threads_per_core);

?
 		/*
 		 * All threads of a core will all belong to the same core,
-- 
2.18.2
--
Thanks and Regards
gautham.
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