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<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2024-08-02T16:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-08-02T16:33:35+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - A fix to avoid dropping some of the internal pseudo-extensions, which
   breaks *envcfg dependency parsing

 - The kernel entry address is now aligned in purgatory, which avoids a
   misaligned load that can lead to crash on systems that don't support
   misaligned accesses early in boot

 - The FW_SFENCE_VMA_RECEIVED perf event was duplicated in a handful of
   perf JSON configurations, one of them been updated to
   FW_SFENCE_VMA_ASID_SENT

 - The starfive cache driver is now restricted to 64-bit systems, as it
   isn't 32-bit clean

 - A fix for to avoid aliasing legacy-mode perf counters with software
   perf counters

 - VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV is now handled in the page fault code

 - A fix for stalls during CPU hotplug due to IPIs being disabled

 - A fix for memblock bounds checking. This manifests as a crash on
   systems with discontinuous memory maps that have regions that don't
   fit in the linear map

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  riscv: Fix linear mapping checks for non-contiguous memory regions
  RISC-V: Enable the IPI before workqueue_online_cpu()
  riscv/mm: Add handling for VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV in mm_fault_error()
  perf: riscv: Fix selecting counters in legacy mode
  cache: StarFive: Require a 64-bit system
  perf arch events: Fix duplicate RISC-V SBI firmware event name
  riscv/purgatory: align riscv_kernel_entry
  riscv: cpufeature: Do not drop Linux-internal extensions
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Pull RISC-V fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - A fix to avoid dropping some of the internal pseudo-extensions, which
   breaks *envcfg dependency parsing

 - The kernel entry address is now aligned in purgatory, which avoids a
   misaligned load that can lead to crash on systems that don't support
   misaligned accesses early in boot

 - The FW_SFENCE_VMA_RECEIVED perf event was duplicated in a handful of
   perf JSON configurations, one of them been updated to
   FW_SFENCE_VMA_ASID_SENT

 - The starfive cache driver is now restricted to 64-bit systems, as it
   isn't 32-bit clean

 - A fix for to avoid aliasing legacy-mode perf counters with software
   perf counters

 - VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV is now handled in the page fault code

 - A fix for stalls during CPU hotplug due to IPIs being disabled

 - A fix for memblock bounds checking. This manifests as a crash on
   systems with discontinuous memory maps that have regions that don't
   fit in the linear map

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  riscv: Fix linear mapping checks for non-contiguous memory regions
  RISC-V: Enable the IPI before workqueue_online_cpu()
  riscv/mm: Add handling for VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV in mm_fault_error()
  perf: riscv: Fix selecting counters in legacy mode
  cache: StarFive: Require a 64-bit system
  perf arch events: Fix duplicate RISC-V SBI firmware event name
  riscv/purgatory: align riscv_kernel_entry
  riscv: cpufeature: Do not drop Linux-internal extensions
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<title>RISC-V: Enable the IPI before workqueue_online_cpu()</title>
<updated>2024-08-01T14:15:43+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nick Hu</name>
<email>nick.hu@sifive.com</email>
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<published>2024-07-17T03:17:14+00:00</published>
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Sometimes the hotplug cpu stalls at the arch_cpu_idle() for a while after
workqueue_online_cpu(). When cpu stalls at the idle loop, the reschedule
IPI is pending. However the enable bit is not enabled yet so the cpu stalls
at WFI until watchdog timeout. Therefore enable the IPI before the
workqueue_online_cpu() to fix the issue.

Fixes: 63c5484e7495 ("workqueue: Add multiple affinity scopes and interface to select them")
Signed-off-by: Nick Hu &lt;nick.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717031714.1946036-1-nick.hu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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Sometimes the hotplug cpu stalls at the arch_cpu_idle() for a while after
workqueue_online_cpu(). When cpu stalls at the idle loop, the reschedule
IPI is pending. However the enable bit is not enabled yet so the cpu stalls
at WFI until watchdog timeout. Therefore enable the IPI before the
workqueue_online_cpu() to fix the issue.

Fixes: 63c5484e7495 ("workqueue: Add multiple affinity scopes and interface to select them")
Signed-off-by: Nick Hu &lt;nick.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717031714.1946036-1-nick.hu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>profiling: attempt to remove per-cpu profile flip buffer</title>
<updated>2024-07-29T17:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-29T17:58:28+00:00</published>
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This is the really old legacy kernel profiling code, which has long
since been obviated by "real profiling" (ie 'prof' and company), and
mainly remains as a source of syzbot reports.

There are anecdotal reports that people still use it for boot-time
profiling, but it's unlikely that such use would care about the old NUMA
optimizations in this code from 2004 (commit ad02973d42: "profile: 512x
Altix timer interrupt livelock fix" in the BK import archive at [1])

So in order to head off future syzbot reports, let's try to simplify
this code and get rid of the per-cpu profile buffers that are quite a
large portion of the complexity footprint of this thing (including CPU
hotplug callbacks etc).

It's unlikely anybody will actually notice, or possibly, as Thomas put
it: "Only people who indulge in nostalgia will notice :)".

That said, if it turns out that this code is actually actively used by
somebody, we can always revert this removal.  Thus the "attempt" in the
summary line.

[ Note: in a small nod to "the profiling code can cause NUMA problems",
  this also removes the "increment the last entry in the profiling array
  on any unknown hits" logic. That would account any program counter in
  a module to that single counter location, and might exacerbate any
  NUMA cacheline bouncing issues ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs52BxT4Zjmjz8aNvHWKxf5_ThBY4bYL1Y6CTaNL2dTw@mail.gmail.com/
Link:  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git [1]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the really old legacy kernel profiling code, which has long
since been obviated by "real profiling" (ie 'prof' and company), and
mainly remains as a source of syzbot reports.

There are anecdotal reports that people still use it for boot-time
profiling, but it's unlikely that such use would care about the old NUMA
optimizations in this code from 2004 (commit ad02973d42: "profile: 512x
Altix timer interrupt livelock fix" in the BK import archive at [1])

So in order to head off future syzbot reports, let's try to simplify
this code and get rid of the per-cpu profile buffers that are quite a
large portion of the complexity footprint of this thing (including CPU
hotplug callbacks etc).

It's unlikely anybody will actually notice, or possibly, as Thomas put
it: "Only people who indulge in nostalgia will notice :)".

That said, if it turns out that this code is actually actively used by
somebody, we can always revert this removal.  Thus the "attempt" in the
summary line.

[ Note: in a small nod to "the profiling code can cause NUMA problems",
  this also removes the "increment the last entry in the profiling array
  on any unknown hits" logic. That would account any program counter in
  a module to that single counter location, and might exacerbate any
  NUMA cacheline bouncing issues ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs52BxT4Zjmjz8aNvHWKxf5_ThBY4bYL1Y6CTaNL2dTw@mail.gmail.com/
Link:  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git [1]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2024-07-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-27T17:19:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-27T17:19:55+00:00</published>
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Pull timer migration updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Fixes and minor updates for the timer migration code:

   - Stop testing the group-&gt;parent pointer as it is not guaranteed to
     be stable over a chain of operations by design.

     This includes a warning which would be nice to have but it produces
     false positives due to the racy nature of the check.

   - Plug a race between CPUs going in and out of idle and a CPU hotplug
     operation. The latter can create and connect a new hierarchy level
     which is missed in the concurrent updates of CPUs which go into
     idle. As a result the events of such a CPU might not be processed
     and timers go stale.

     Cure it by splitting the hotplug operation into a prepare and
     online callback. The prepare callback is guaranteed to run on an
     online and therefore active CPU. This CPU updates the hierarchy and
     being online ensures that there is always at least one migrator
     active which handles the modified hierarchy correctly when going
     idle. The online callback which runs on the incoming CPU then just
     marks the CPU active and brings it into operation.

   - Improve tracing and polish the code further so it is more obvious
     what's going on"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2024-07-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/migration: Fix grammar in comment
  timers/migration: Spare write when nothing changed
  timers/migration: Rename childmask by groupmask to make naming more obvious
  timers/migration: Read childmask and parent pointer in a single place
  timers/migration: Use a single struct for hierarchy walk data
  timers/migration: Improve tracing
  timers/migration: Move hierarchy setup into cpuhotplug prepare callback
  timers/migration: Do not rely always on group-&gt;parent
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Pull timer migration updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Fixes and minor updates for the timer migration code:

   - Stop testing the group-&gt;parent pointer as it is not guaranteed to
     be stable over a chain of operations by design.

     This includes a warning which would be nice to have but it produces
     false positives due to the racy nature of the check.

   - Plug a race between CPUs going in and out of idle and a CPU hotplug
     operation. The latter can create and connect a new hierarchy level
     which is missed in the concurrent updates of CPUs which go into
     idle. As a result the events of such a CPU might not be processed
     and timers go stale.

     Cure it by splitting the hotplug operation into a prepare and
     online callback. The prepare callback is guaranteed to run on an
     online and therefore active CPU. This CPU updates the hierarchy and
     being online ensures that there is always at least one migrator
     active which handles the modified hierarchy correctly when going
     idle. The online callback which runs on the incoming CPU then just
     marks the CPU active and brings it into operation.

   - Improve tracing and polish the code further so it is more obvious
     what's going on"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2024-07-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers/migration: Fix grammar in comment
  timers/migration: Spare write when nothing changed
  timers/migration: Rename childmask by groupmask to make naming more obvious
  timers/migration: Read childmask and parent pointer in a single place
  timers/migration: Use a single struct for hierarchy walk data
  timers/migration: Improve tracing
  timers/migration: Move hierarchy setup into cpuhotplug prepare callback
  timers/migration: Do not rely always on group-&gt;parent
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<title>timers/migration: Move hierarchy setup into cpuhotplug prepare callback</title>
<updated>2024-07-22T16:03:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Behnsen</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-17T09:49:40+00:00</published>
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When a CPU comes online the first time, it is possible that a new top level
group will be created. In general all propagation is done from the bottom
to top. This minimizes complexity and prevents possible races. But when a
new top level group is created, the formely top level group needs to be
connected to the new level. This is the only time, when the direction to
propagate changes is changed: the changes are propagated from top (new top
level group) to bottom (formerly top level group).

This introduces two races (see (A) and (B)) as reported by Frederic:

(A) This race happens, when marking the formely top level group as active,
but the last active CPU of the formerly top level group goes idle. Then
it's likely that formerly group is no longer active, but marked
nevertheless as active in new top level group:

		  [GRP0:0]
	       migrator = 0
	       active   = 0
	       nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	       /         \
	      0         1 .. 7
	  active         idle

0) Hierarchy has for now only 8 CPUs and CPU 0 is the only active CPU.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = NONE
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
					 \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0              migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0              active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active         idle                !online

1) CPU 8 is booting and creates a new group in first level GRP0:1 and
   therefore also a new top group GRP1:0. For now the setup code proceeded
   only until the connected between GRP0:1 to the new top group. The
   connection between CPU8 and GRP0:1 is not yet established and CPU 8 is
   still !online.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = NONE
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0              migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0              active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active         idle                !online

2) Setup code now connects GRP0:0 to GRP1:0 and observes while in
   tmigr_connect_child_parent() that GRP0:0 is not TMIGR_NONE. So it
   prepares to call tmigr_active_up() on it. It hasn't done it yet.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = NONE
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE        migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = NONE              active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX         nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                !online

3) CPU 0 goes idle. Since GRP0:0-&gt;parent has been updated by CPU 8 with
   GRP0:0-&gt;lock held, CPU 0 observes GRP1:0 after calling
   tmigr_update_events() and it propagates the change to the top (no change
   there and no wakeup programmed since there is no timer).

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = GRP0:0
			active   = GRP0:0
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE       migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = NONE             active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX        nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                !online

4) Now the setup code finally calls tmigr_active_up() to and sets GRP0:0
   active in GRP1:0

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = GRP0:0
			active   = GRP0:0, GRP0:1
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE       migrator = 8
	      active   = NONE             active   = 8
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX        nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \                    |
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                active

5) Now CPU 8 is connected with GRP0:1 and CPU 8 calls tmigr_active_up() out
   of tmigr_cpu_online().

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = GRP0:0
			active   = GRP0:0
			nextevt  = T8
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE         migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = NONE               active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX          nextevt  = T8
		/         \                    |
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                  idle

5) CPU 8 goes idle with a timer T8 and relies on GRP0:0 as the migrator.
   But it's not really active, so T8 gets ignored.

--&gt; The update which is done in third step is not noticed by setup code. So
    a wrong migrator is set to top level group and a timer could get
    ignored.

(B) Reading group-&gt;parent and group-&gt;childmask when an hierarchy update is
ongoing and reaches the formerly top level group is racy as those values
could be inconsistent. (The notation of migrator and active now slightly
changes in contrast to the above example, as now the childmasks are used.)

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
					 \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE     migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x00           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 0		childmask= 1
	      parent   = NULL		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  idle           idle                !online
	  childmask=1

1) Hierarchy has 8 CPUs. CPU 8 is at the moment in the process of onlining
   but did not yet connect GRP0:0 to GRP1:0.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE     migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x00           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 0		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  idle           idle                !online
	  childmask=1

2) Setup code (running on CPU 8) now connects GRP0:0 to GRP1:0, updates
   parent pointer of GRP0:0 and ...

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0x01           migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x01           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 0		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active          idle                !online
	  childmask=1

	  tmigr_walk.childmask = 0

3) ... CPU 0 comes active in the same time. As migrator in GRP0:0 was
   TMIGR_NONE, childmask of GRP0:0 is stored in update propagation data
   structure tmigr_walk (as update of childmask is not yet
   visible/updated). And now ...

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0x01           migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x01           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 2		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active          idle                !online
	  childmask=1

	  tmigr_walk.childmask = 0

4) ... childmask of GRP0:0 is updated by CPU 8 (still part of setup
   code).

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = 0x00
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0x01           migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x01           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 2		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active          idle                !online
	  childmask=1

	  tmigr_walk.childmask = 0

5) CPU 0 sees the connection to GRP1:0 and now propagates active state to
   GRP1:0 but with childmask = 0 as stored in propagation data structure.

--&gt; Now GRP1:0 always has a migrator as 0x00 != TMIGR_NONE and for all CPUs
    it looks like GRP1:0 is always active.

To prevent those races, the setup of the hierarchy is moved into the
cpuhotplug prepare callback. The prepare callback is not executed by the
CPU which will come online, it is executed by the CPU which prepares
onlining of the other CPU. This CPU is active while it is connecting the
formerly top level to the new one. This prevents from (A) to happen and it
also prevents from any further walk above the formerly top level until that
active CPU becomes inactive, releasing the new -&gt;parent and -&gt;childmask
updates to be visible by any subsequent walk up above the formerly top
level hierarchy. This prevents from (B) to happen. The direction for the
updates is now forced to look like "from bottom to top".

However if the active CPU prevents from tmigr_cpu_(in)active() to walk up
with the update not-or-half visible, nothing prevents walking up to the new
top with a 0 childmask in tmigr_handle_remote_up() or
tmigr_requires_handle_remote_up() if the active CPU doing the prepare is
not the migrator. But then it looks fine because:

  * tmigr_check_migrator() should just return false
  * The migrator is active and should eventually observe the new childmask
    at some point in a future tick.

Split setup functionality of online callback into the cpuhotplug prepare
callback and setup hotplug state. Change init call into early_initcall() to
make sure an already active CPU prepares everything for newly upcoming
CPUs. Reorder the code, that all prepare related functions are close to
each other and online and offline callbacks are also close together.

Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717094940.18687-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de

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When a CPU comes online the first time, it is possible that a new top level
group will be created. In general all propagation is done from the bottom
to top. This minimizes complexity and prevents possible races. But when a
new top level group is created, the formely top level group needs to be
connected to the new level. This is the only time, when the direction to
propagate changes is changed: the changes are propagated from top (new top
level group) to bottom (formerly top level group).

This introduces two races (see (A) and (B)) as reported by Frederic:

(A) This race happens, when marking the formely top level group as active,
but the last active CPU of the formerly top level group goes idle. Then
it's likely that formerly group is no longer active, but marked
nevertheless as active in new top level group:

		  [GRP0:0]
	       migrator = 0
	       active   = 0
	       nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	       /         \
	      0         1 .. 7
	  active         idle

0) Hierarchy has for now only 8 CPUs and CPU 0 is the only active CPU.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = NONE
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
					 \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0              migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0              active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active         idle                !online

1) CPU 8 is booting and creates a new group in first level GRP0:1 and
   therefore also a new top group GRP1:0. For now the setup code proceeded
   only until the connected between GRP0:1 to the new top group. The
   connection between CPU8 and GRP0:1 is not yet established and CPU 8 is
   still !online.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = NONE
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0              migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0              active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active         idle                !online

2) Setup code now connects GRP0:0 to GRP1:0 and observes while in
   tmigr_connect_child_parent() that GRP0:0 is not TMIGR_NONE. So it
   prepares to call tmigr_active_up() on it. It hasn't done it yet.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = NONE
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE        migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = NONE              active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX         nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                !online

3) CPU 0 goes idle. Since GRP0:0-&gt;parent has been updated by CPU 8 with
   GRP0:0-&gt;lock held, CPU 0 observes GRP1:0 after calling
   tmigr_update_events() and it propagates the change to the top (no change
   there and no wakeup programmed since there is no timer).

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = GRP0:0
			active   = GRP0:0
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE       migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = NONE             active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX        nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                !online

4) Now the setup code finally calls tmigr_active_up() to and sets GRP0:0
   active in GRP1:0

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = GRP0:0
			active   = GRP0:0, GRP0:1
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE       migrator = 8
	      active   = NONE             active   = 8
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX        nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		/         \                    |
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                active

5) Now CPU 8 is connected with GRP0:1 and CPU 8 calls tmigr_active_up() out
   of tmigr_cpu_online().

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = GRP0:0
			active   = GRP0:0
			nextevt  = T8
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE         migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = NONE               active   = NONE
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX          nextevt  = T8
		/         \                    |
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	    idle         idle                  idle

5) CPU 8 goes idle with a timer T8 and relies on GRP0:0 as the migrator.
   But it's not really active, so T8 gets ignored.

--&gt; The update which is done in third step is not noticed by setup code. So
    a wrong migrator is set to top level group and a timer could get
    ignored.

(B) Reading group-&gt;parent and group-&gt;childmask when an hierarchy update is
ongoing and reaches the formerly top level group is racy as those values
could be inconsistent. (The notation of migrator and active now slightly
changes in contrast to the above example, as now the childmasks are used.)

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
					 \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE     migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x00           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 0		childmask= 1
	      parent   = NULL		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  idle           idle                !online
	  childmask=1

1) Hierarchy has 8 CPUs. CPU 8 is at the moment in the process of onlining
   but did not yet connect GRP0:0 to GRP1:0.

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = TMIGR_NONE     migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x00           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 0		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  idle           idle                !online
	  childmask=1

2) Setup code (running on CPU 8) now connects GRP0:0 to GRP1:0, updates
   parent pointer of GRP0:0 and ...

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0x01           migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x01           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 0		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active          idle                !online
	  childmask=1

	  tmigr_walk.childmask = 0

3) ... CPU 0 comes active in the same time. As migrator in GRP0:0 was
   TMIGR_NONE, childmask of GRP0:0 is stored in update propagation data
   structure tmigr_walk (as update of childmask is not yet
   visible/updated). And now ...

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = TMIGR_NONE
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0x01           migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x01           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 2		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active          idle                !online
	  childmask=1

	  tmigr_walk.childmask = 0

4) ... childmask of GRP0:0 is updated by CPU 8 (still part of setup
   code).

			     [GRP1:0]
			migrator = 0x00
			active   = 0x00
			nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
		       /                  \
		 [GRP0:0]                  [GRP0:1]
	      migrator = 0x01           migrator = TMIGR_NONE
	      active   = 0x01           active   = 0x00
	      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX      nextevt  = KTIME_MAX
	      childmask= 2		childmask= 1
	      parent   = GRP1:0		parent   = GRP1:0
		/         \
	      0          1 .. 7                8
	  active          idle                !online
	  childmask=1

	  tmigr_walk.childmask = 0

5) CPU 0 sees the connection to GRP1:0 and now propagates active state to
   GRP1:0 but with childmask = 0 as stored in propagation data structure.

--&gt; Now GRP1:0 always has a migrator as 0x00 != TMIGR_NONE and for all CPUs
    it looks like GRP1:0 is always active.

To prevent those races, the setup of the hierarchy is moved into the
cpuhotplug prepare callback. The prepare callback is not executed by the
CPU which will come online, it is executed by the CPU which prepares
onlining of the other CPU. This CPU is active while it is connecting the
formerly top level to the new one. This prevents from (A) to happen and it
also prevents from any further walk above the formerly top level until that
active CPU becomes inactive, releasing the new -&gt;parent and -&gt;childmask
updates to be visible by any subsequent walk up above the formerly top
level hierarchy. This prevents from (B) to happen. The direction for the
updates is now forced to look like "from bottom to top".

However if the active CPU prevents from tmigr_cpu_(in)active() to walk up
with the update not-or-half visible, nothing prevents walking up to the new
top with a 0 childmask in tmigr_handle_remote_up() or
tmigr_requires_handle_remote_up() if the active CPU doing the prepare is
not the migrator. But then it looks fine because:

  * tmigr_check_migrator() should just return false
  * The migrator is active and should eventually observe the new childmask
    at some point in a future tick.

Split setup functionality of online callback into the cpuhotplug prepare
callback and setup hotplug state. Change init call into early_initcall() to
make sure an already active CPU prepares everything for newly upcoming
CPUs. Reorder the code, that all prepare related functions are close to
each other and online and offline callbacks are also close together.

Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717094940.18687-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-07-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-15T22:03:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T22:03:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4fd9435641bb80c04863c9a35afafe4c3f953bbf'/>
<id>4fd9435641bb80c04863c9a35afafe4c3f953bbf</id>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for timers, timekeeping and related functionality:

  Core:

   - Make the takeover of a hrtimer based broadcast timer reliable
     during CPU hot-unplug. The current implementation suffers from a
     race which can lead to broadcast timer starvation in the worst
     case.

   - VDSO related cleanups and simplifications

   - Small cleanups and enhancements all over the place

  PTP:

   - Replace the architecture specific base clock to clocksource, e.g.
     ART to TSC, conversion function with generic functionality to avoid
     exposing such internals to drivers and convert all existing drivers
     over. This also allows to provide functionality which converts the
     other way round in the core code based on the same parameter set.

   - Provide a function to convert CLOCK_REALTIME to the base clock to
     support the upcoming PPS output driver on Intel platforms.

  Drivers:

   - A set of Device Tree bindings for new hardware

   - Cleanups and enhancements all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-07-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  clocksource/drivers/realtek: Add timer driver for rtl-otto platforms
  dt-bindings: timer: Add schema for realtek,otto-timer
  dt-bindings: timer: Add SOPHGO SG2002 clint
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add R-Car Gen2 support
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add RZ/G1 support
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add R-Mobile APE6 support
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Correct sched_clock width
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Refine rating computation
  clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Address race condition for clock events
  clocksource/driver/arm_global_timer: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from irq
  tick/broadcast: Make takeover of broadcast hrtimer reliable
  tick/sched: Combine WARN_ON_ONCE and print_once
  x86/vdso: Remove unused include
  x86/vgtod: Remove unused typedef gtod_long_t
  x86/vdso: Fix function reference in comment
  vdso: Add comment about reason for vdso struct ordering
  vdso/gettimeofday: Clarify comment about open coded function
  timekeeping: Add missing kernel-doc function comments
  tick: Remove unnused tick_nohz_get_idle_calls()
  ...
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for timers, timekeeping and related functionality:

  Core:

   - Make the takeover of a hrtimer based broadcast timer reliable
     during CPU hot-unplug. The current implementation suffers from a
     race which can lead to broadcast timer starvation in the worst
     case.

   - VDSO related cleanups and simplifications

   - Small cleanups and enhancements all over the place

  PTP:

   - Replace the architecture specific base clock to clocksource, e.g.
     ART to TSC, conversion function with generic functionality to avoid
     exposing such internals to drivers and convert all existing drivers
     over. This also allows to provide functionality which converts the
     other way round in the core code based on the same parameter set.

   - Provide a function to convert CLOCK_REALTIME to the base clock to
     support the upcoming PPS output driver on Intel platforms.

  Drivers:

   - A set of Device Tree bindings for new hardware

   - Cleanups and enhancements all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-07-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  clocksource/drivers/realtek: Add timer driver for rtl-otto platforms
  dt-bindings: timer: Add schema for realtek,otto-timer
  dt-bindings: timer: Add SOPHGO SG2002 clint
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add R-Car Gen2 support
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add RZ/G1 support
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add R-Mobile APE6 support
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Correct sched_clock width
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Refine rating computation
  clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Address race condition for clock events
  clocksource/driver/arm_global_timer: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from irq
  tick/broadcast: Make takeover of broadcast hrtimer reliable
  tick/sched: Combine WARN_ON_ONCE and print_once
  x86/vdso: Remove unused include
  x86/vgtod: Remove unused typedef gtod_long_t
  x86/vdso: Fix function reference in comment
  vdso: Add comment about reason for vdso struct ordering
  vdso/gettimeofday: Clarify comment about open coded function
  timekeeping: Add missing kernel-doc function comments
  tick: Remove unnused tick_nohz_get_idle_calls()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/realtek: Add timer driver for rtl-otto platforms</title>
<updated>2024-07-12T14:07:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Packham</name>
<email>chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-10T04:35:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4bdc3eaa102b6bedb0800f76f53eca516d5cf20c'/>
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<content type='text'>
The timer/counter block on the Realtek SoCs provides up to 5 timers. It
also includes a watchdog timer which is handled by the
realtek_otto_wdt.c driver.

One timer will be used per CPU as a local clock event generator. An
additional timer will be used as an overal stable clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen &lt;markus.stockhausen@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule &lt;sander@svanheule.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham &lt;chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240710043524.1535151-8-chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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The timer/counter block on the Realtek SoCs provides up to 5 timers. It
also includes a watchdog timer which is handled by the
realtek_otto_wdt.c driver.

One timer will be used per CPU as a local clock event generator. An
additional timer will be used as an overal stable clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen &lt;markus.stockhausen@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule &lt;sander@svanheule.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham &lt;chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240710043524.1535151-8-chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu/hotplug: Fix typo in comment</title>
<updated>2024-06-17T13:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Costa Shulyupin</name>
<email>costa.shul@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-25T16:38:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f45a6051d582f613f4abc383ae238661f7813302'/>
<id>f45a6051d582f613f4abc383ae238661f7813302</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin &lt;costa.shul@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325163810.669459-1-costa.shul@redhat.com

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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin &lt;costa.shul@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325163810.669459-1-costa.shul@redhat.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>irqchip: Add RISC-V incoming MSI controller early driver</title>
<updated>2024-03-25T16:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anup Patel</name>
<email>apatel@ventanamicro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-07T14:03:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=21a8f8a0eb35ceb21e2c9ddd87468bc3b5ac87c0'/>
<id>21a8f8a0eb35ceb21e2c9ddd87468bc3b5ac87c0</id>
<content type='text'>
The RISC-V advanced interrupt architecture (AIA) specification
defines a new MSI controller called incoming message signalled
interrupt controller (IMSIC) which manages MSI on per-HART (or
per-CPU) basis. It also supports IPIs as software injected MSIs.
(For more details refer https://github.com/riscv/riscv-aia)

Add an early irqchip driver for RISC-V IMSIC which sets up the
IMSIC state and provide IPIs.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;apatel@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307140307.646078-3-apatel@ventanamicro.com

</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The RISC-V advanced interrupt architecture (AIA) specification
defines a new MSI controller called incoming message signalled
interrupt controller (IMSIC) which manages MSI on per-HART (or
per-CPU) basis. It also supports IPIs as software injected MSIs.
(For more details refer https://github.com/riscv/riscv-aia)

Add an early irqchip driver for RISC-V IMSIC which sets up the
IMSIC state and provide IPIs.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;apatel@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307140307.646078-3-apatel@ventanamicro.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick: Start centralizing tick related CPU hotplug operations</title>
<updated>2024-02-26T10:37:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-25T22:54:59+00:00</published>
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During the CPU offlining process, the various timer tick features are
shut down from scattered places, sometimes from teardown callbacks on
stop machine, sometimes through explicit calls, sometimes from the
control CPU after the CPU died. The reason why these shutdown operations
are spread around is not always clear and it makes the tick lifecycle
hard to follow.

The tick should be shut down in order from highest to lowest level:

On stop machine from the dying CPU (high-level):

 1) Hand-over the timekeeping duty (tick_handover_do_timer())
 2) Cancel the tick implementation called by the clockevent callback
    (tick_cancel_sched_timer())
 3) Shutdown broadcasting (tick_offline_cpu() / tick_broadcast_offline())

On stop machine from the dying CPU (low-level):

 4) Shutdown clockevents drivers (CPUHP_AP_*_TIMER_STARTING states)

From the control CPU after the CPU died (low-level):

 5) Shutdown/unregister/cleanup clockevents for the dead CPU
    (tick_cleanup_dead_cpu())

Instead the current order is 2, 4 (both from CPU hotplug states), then
1 and 3 through direct calls. This layout and order don't make much
sense. The operations 1, 2, 3 should be gathered together and in order.

Sort this situation with creating a new TICK shut-down CPU hotplug state
and start with introducing the timekeeping duty hand-over there. The
state must precede hrtimers migration because the tick hrtimer will be
stopped from it in a further patch.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-8-frederic@kernel.org

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During the CPU offlining process, the various timer tick features are
shut down from scattered places, sometimes from teardown callbacks on
stop machine, sometimes through explicit calls, sometimes from the
control CPU after the CPU died. The reason why these shutdown operations
are spread around is not always clear and it makes the tick lifecycle
hard to follow.

The tick should be shut down in order from highest to lowest level:

On stop machine from the dying CPU (high-level):

 1) Hand-over the timekeeping duty (tick_handover_do_timer())
 2) Cancel the tick implementation called by the clockevent callback
    (tick_cancel_sched_timer())
 3) Shutdown broadcasting (tick_offline_cpu() / tick_broadcast_offline())

On stop machine from the dying CPU (low-level):

 4) Shutdown clockevents drivers (CPUHP_AP_*_TIMER_STARTING states)

From the control CPU after the CPU died (low-level):

 5) Shutdown/unregister/cleanup clockevents for the dead CPU
    (tick_cleanup_dead_cpu())

Instead the current order is 2, 4 (both from CPU hotplug states), then
1 and 3 through direct calls. This layout and order don't make much
sense. The operations 1, 2, 3 should be gathered together and in order.

Sort this situation with creating a new TICK shut-down CPU hotplug state
and start with introducing the timekeeping duty hand-over there. The
state must precede hrtimers migration because the tick hrtimer will be
stopped from it in a further patch.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225225508.11587-8-frederic@kernel.org

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