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    s390/idle: fix sequence handling vs cpu hotplug · 0008204f
    Heiko Carstens authored
    The s390 idle accounting code uses a sequence counter which gets used
    when the per cpu idle statistics get updated and read.
    
    One assumption on read access is that only when the sequence counter is
    even and did not change while reading all values the result is valid.
    On cpu hotplug however the per cpu data structure gets initialized via
    a cpu hotplug notifier on CPU_ONLINE.
    CPU_ONLINE however is too late, since the onlined cpu is already running
    and might access the per cpu data. Worst case is that the data structure
    gets initialized while an idle thread is updating its idle statistics.
    This will result in an uneven sequence counter after an update.
    
    As a result user space tools like top, which access /proc/stat in order
    to get idle stats, will busy loop waiting for the sequence counter to
    become even again, which will never happen until the queried cpu will
    update its idle statistics again. And even then the sequence counter
    will only have an even value for a couple of cpu cycles.
    
    Fix this by moving the initialization of the per cpu idle statistics
    to cpu_init(). I prefer that solution in favor of changing the
    notifier to CPU_UP_PREPARE, which would be a different solution to
    the problem.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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