The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     e4a70f5fbd43f55b474028a2cee3d78e4b443dd7
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/e4a70f5fbd43f55b474028a2cee3d78e4b443dd7
Author:        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 20 May 2026 00:09:25 +02:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:34:03 +02:00

timers/migration: Fix hotplug migrator selection target on asymetric capacity machines

When a top-level migrator is deactivated, either at CPU down hotplug time
or when a CPU is domain isolated, a new migrator is elected among the
available CPUs and woken up to take over the migration duty.

However that election must happen at the scope of a given hierarchy and not
globally, which the introduction of per-capacity hierarchies failed to
handle.

As a result a given hierarchy may end up without migrator to handle global
timers.

Fix it by making sure that the new migrator belongs to the same hierarchy
as the outgoing CPU.

Fixes: 098cbaad8e57 ("timers/migration: Split per-capacity hierarchies")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519220926.63437-2-frederic@kernel.org
---
 kernel/time/timer_migration.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_migration.c b/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
index 25e3c56..8032b00 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,18 @@ static long tmigr_trigger_active(void *unused)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static struct tmigr_hierarchy *__tmigr_get_hierarchy(unsigned int capacity)
+{
+	struct tmigr_hierarchy *iter;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(iter, &tmigr_hierarchy_list, node) {
+		if (iter->capacity == capacity)
+			return iter;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 static int tmigr_clear_cpu_available(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct tmigr_cpu *tmc = this_cpu_ptr(&tmigr_cpu);
@@ -1488,8 +1500,21 @@ static int tmigr_clear_cpu_available(unsigned int cpu)
 	}
 
 	if (firstexp != KTIME_MAX) {
-		migrator = cpumask_any(tmigr_available_cpumask);
-		work_on_cpu(migrator, tmigr_trigger_active, NULL);
+		struct tmigr_hierarchy *hier = __tmigr_get_hierarchy(arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu));
+
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!hier))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		migrator = cpumask_any_and(tmigr_available_cpumask, hier->cpumask);
+		if (migrator < nr_cpu_ids) {
+			work_on_cpu(migrator, tmigr_trigger_active, NULL);
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * If deactivation returned an expiration, it belongs to an available
+			 * nohz CPU in the hierarchy.
+			 */
+			WARN_ONCE(1, "Expected available CPU in the hierarchy\n");
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1915,12 +1940,9 @@ out:
 
 static struct tmigr_hierarchy *tmigr_get_hierarchy(unsigned int capacity)
 {
-	struct tmigr_hierarchy *hier = NULL, *iter;
+	struct tmigr_hierarchy *hier;
 
-	list_for_each_entry(iter, &tmigr_hierarchy_list, node) {
-		if (iter->capacity == capacity)
-			hier = iter;
-	}
+	hier = __tmigr_get_hierarchy(capacity);
 
 	if (hier)
 		return hier;
@@ -1978,9 +2000,9 @@ static long connect_old_root_work(void *arg)
 	struct tmigr_hierarchy *hier;
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-	hier = tmigr_get_hierarchy(arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu));
-	if (IS_ERR(hier))
-		return PTR_ERR(hier);
+	hier = __tmigr_get_hierarchy(arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu));
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!hier))
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return tmigr_connect_old_root(hier, cpu, old_root, true);
 }