From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932149Ab2BAPOy (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:14:54 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:54501 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932095Ab2BAPOx (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:14:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 16:14:48 +0100 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: rcu warnings cause stack overflow Message-ID: <20120201151445.GA6731@somewhere.redhat.com> References: <20120201100652.GA2922@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120201100652.GA2922@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:06:52AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > Hi Frederic, > > your patch 00f49e5729 "rcu: Warn when rcu_read_lock() is used in extended > quiescent state" adds a WARN_ON_ONCE to rcu_lock_acquire(). > Actually this found a bug on s390 (thanks!) but it probably didn't work > as expected. > On architectures which implement WARN_ON_ONCE with an exception this > additional warning will lead to a stack overflow (if it triggers): > > [ 55.746956] Kernel stack overflow. > [ 55.746966] Modules linked in: qeth_l3 binfmt_misc dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod qeth vmur ccwgroup [last unloaded: scsi_wait_ > scan] > [ 55.746999] CPU: 0 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc1-00167-gf8275f9 #90 > [ 55.747005] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, task: 0000000000911100, ksp: 0000000000907d50) > [ 55.747013] Krnl PSW : 0404000180000000 00000000005d5728 (illegal_op+0x1c/0x134) > [ 55.747034] R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0 EA:3 > [ 55.747043] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 00000000005d570c 00000000009040e8 0000000000000002 > [ 55.747054] 00000000005d83dc ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 0400000000907cc8 > [ 55.747064] 0404100180000000 00000000005d8478 0000000000000008 00000000009040e8 > [ 55.747074] 0000000000904000 00000000005dc550 0000000000904048 0000000000904048 > [ 55.747096] Krnl Code: 00000000005d571c: b90400ef lgr %r14,%r15 > [ 55.747118] 00000000005d5720: b90400b2 lgr %r11,%r2 > [ 55.747194] #00000000005d5724: a7840001 brc 8,5d5726 > [ 55.747205] >00000000005d5728: a7fbff18 aghi %r15,-232 > [ 55.747216] 00000000005d572c: e3e0f0980024 stg %r14,152(%r15) > [ 55.747228] 00000000005d5732: e31020100004 lg %r1,16(%r2) > [ 55.747242] 00000000005d5738: 58c020a0 l %r12,160(%r2) > [ 55.747257] 00000000005d573c: 91012009 tm 9(%r2),1 > [ 55.747276] Call Trace: > [ 55.747282] ([<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158) > [ 55.747296] [<00000000005d8478>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd8/0xfc > [ 55.747309] ([<00000000005d83dc>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0xfc) > [ 55.747322] [<00000000005d84c6>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x3c > [ 55.747335] [<00000000005d852a>] notify_die+0x52/0x60 > [ 55.747349] [<00000000005d57da>] illegal_op+0xce/0x134 > [ 55.747364] [<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158 > > [...lots more of the same...] > > [ 55.747379] [<00000000005d8478>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd8/0xfc > [ 55.747425] ([<00000000005d83dc>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0xfc) > [ 55.747432] [<00000000005d84c6>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x3c > [ 55.747440] [<00000000005d852a>] notify_die+0x52/0x60 > [ 55.747448] [<00000000005d57da>] illegal_op+0xce/0x134 > [ 55.747457] [<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158 > [ 55.747797] [<00000000005d8478>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd8/0xfc > [ 55.747806] ([<00000000005d83dc>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0xfc) > [ 55.747816] [<00000000005d84c6>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x3c > [ 55.747826] [<00000000005d852a>] notify_die+0x52/0x60 > [ 55.748456] [<00000000005d57da>] illegal_op+0xce/0x134 > [ 55.748463] [<00000000005d60b4>] pgm_check_handler+0x154/0x158 > [ 55.748472] [<000000000017afa0>] select_task_rq_fair+0x1478/0x14b4 > [ 55.748483] ([<0000000000179bb8>] select_task_rq_fair+0x90/0x14b4) > [ 55.748493] [<0000000000170702>] try_to_wake_up+0x136/0x47c > [ 55.748506] [<000000000015b446>] autoremove_wake_function+0x26/0x58 > [ 55.748518] [<000000000016693a>] __wake_up_common+0x76/0xb4 > [ 55.748530] [<000000000016aed0>] __wake_up+0x4c/0x60 > [ 55.748541] [<0000000000109ee0>] s390_handle_mcck+0x194/0x1f8 > [ 55.748557] [<000000000010486a>] cpu_idle+0x192/0x1c0 > [ 55.748570] [<0000000000977916>] start_kernel+0x402/0x410 > [ 55.748588] [<0000000000100020>] _stext+0x20/0x80 > [ 55.748603] 2 locks held by swapper/0/0: > [ 55.748612] #0: (crw_handler_wait_q.lock){......}, at: [<000000000016aeb6>] __wake_up+0x32/0x60 > [ 55.748648] #1: (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<000000000017060c>] try_to_wake_up+0x40/0x47c > [ 55.748663] Last Breaking-Event-Address: > [ 55.748667] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 > > This simply happens because WARN_ON_ONCE causes an exception, the excpetion > handler wants to call a notifier call chain (notify_die), which again uses > rcu_read_lock(), which again causes an exception and so on... > Unfortunately WARN_ON_ONCE first causes an exception and only afterwards sets > the flag that the warning already happened. Seems to be quite some effort to > change this behaviour. > > Removing the WARN_ON_ONCE will fix this and, if lockdep is turned on, still > will find illegal uses. But it won't work for lockdep off configs... > So we probably want something better than the patch below. Ah ok. Hmm, but why are you using an exception to implement WARN_ON() in s390? Is it to have a whole new stack for the warning path in order to avoid stack overflow from the place that called the WARN_ON() ? Anyway perhaps we need a recursion protection on WARN_ON_ONCE(), such as: diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bug.h b/include/asm-generic/bug.h index 84458b0..f76635f 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/bug.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/bug.h @@ -137,9 +137,13 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line); static bool __warned; \ int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition); \ \ - if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) \ - if (WARN_ON(!__warned)) \ + if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) { \ + if (!__warned) { \ __warned = true; \ + barrier(); \ + WARN_ON(1); \ + } \ + } \ unlikely(__ret_warn_once); \ })