Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/isolation: Assert that a housekeeping CPU comes up at boot time

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:17:20AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> +static int __init housekeeping_verify_smp(void)
> +{
> +     int cpu;
> +
> +     if (!housekeeping_flags)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     /*
> +      * Early housekeeping setup is done before CPUs come up, and there are
> +      * a range of options scattered around that can restrict which CPUs
> +      * come up. It is possible to pass in a combination of housekeeping
> +      * and SMP arguments that result in housekeeping assigned to an
> +      * offline CPU.
> +      *
> +      * Check that condition here after SMP comes up, and give a useful
> +      * error message rather than an obscure non deterministic crash or
> +      * hang later.
> +      */
> +     for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> +             if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, housekeeping_mask))
> +                     return 0;
> +     }
> +     panic("Housekeeping: nohz_full= or isolcpus= resulted in no online CPUs 
> for housekeeping.\n");

Ok let's keep the panic. But let's simplify and spare long iterations off boot 
load:

    if (!cpumask_intersects(cpu_online_mask, housekeeping_mask))
        panic(...);

Thanks.