rcu-tasks: Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs
The rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() function relies on queue_work_on() to silently fall back to WORK_CPU_UNBOUND when the specified CPU is offline. However, the queue_work_on() function's silent fallback mechanism relies on that CPU having been online at some time in the past. When queue_work_on() is passed a CPU that has never been online, workqueue lockups ensue, which can be bad for your kernel's general health and well-being. This commit therefore checks whether a given CPU has ever been online, and, if not substitutes WORK_CPU_UNBOUND in the subsequent call to queue_work_on(). Why not simply omit the queue_work_on() call entirely? Because this function is flooding callback-invocation notifications to all CPUs, and must deal with possibilities that include a sparse cpu_possible_mask. This commit also moves the setting of the rcu_data structure's ->beenonline field to rcu_cpu_starting(), which executes on the incoming CPU before that CPU has ever enabled interrupts. This ensures that the required workqueues are present. In addition, because the incoming CPU has not yet enabled its interrupts, there cannot yet have been any softirq handlers running on this CPU, which means that the WARN_ON_ONCE(!rdp->beenonline) within the RCU_SOFTIRQ handler cannot have triggered yet. Fixes: d363f833 ("rcu-tasks: Use workqueues for multiple rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() invocations") Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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