x86/intel_rdt: Ensure a CPU remains online for the region's pseudo-locking sequence
authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:21:54 +0000 (13:21 -0800)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:59:01 +0000 (21:59 +0100)
commit80b71c340f17705ec145911b9a193ea781811b16
tree7c581fbeb3f992693642db5acddaf25c10e0038b
parent254eb5505ca0ca749d3a491fc6668b6c16647a99
x86/intel_rdt: Ensure a CPU remains online for the region's pseudo-locking sequence

The user triggers the creation of a pseudo-locked region when writing
the requested schemata to the schemata resctrl file. The pseudo-locking
of a region is required to be done on a CPU that is associated with the
cache on which the pseudo-locked region will reside. In order to run the
locking code on a specific CPU, the needed CPU has to be selected and
ensured to remain online during the entire locking sequence.

At this time, the cpu_hotplug_lock is not taken during the pseudo-lock
region creation and it is thus possible for a CPU to be selected to run
the pseudo-locking code and then that CPU to go offline before the
thread is able to run on it.

Fix this by ensuring that the cpu_hotplug_lock is taken while the CPU on
which code has to run needs to be controlled. Since the cpu_hotplug_lock
is always taken before rdtgroup_mutex the lock order is maintained.

Fixes: e0bdfe8e36f3 ("x86/intel_rdt: Support creation/removal of pseudo-locked region")
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b7b17432a80f95a1fa21a1698ba643014f58ad31.1544476425.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c