Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix idle cpu's tasks transition

On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Vasily Gorbik wrote:

On an idle system with large amount of cpus it might happen that
klp_update_patch_state() is not reached in do_idle() for a long periods
of time. With debug messages enabled log is filled with:
[  499.442643] livepatch: klp_try_switch_task: swapper/63:0 is running

without any signs of progress. Ending up with "failed to complete
transition".

On s390 LPAR with 128 cpus not a single transition is able to complete
and livepatch kselftests fail. Tests on idling x86 kvm instance with 128
cpus demonstrate similar symptoms with and without CONFIG_NO_HZ.

To deal with that, since runqueue is already locked in
klp_try_switch_task() identify idling cpus and trigger rescheduling
potentially waking them up and making sure idle tasks break out of
do_idle() inner loop and reach klp_update_patch_state(). This helps to
speed up transition time while avoiding unnecessary extra system load.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>

Seems reasonable to me.

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

M