Re: [PATCH] kvm, async_pf: exit idleness when handling KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 10/19/2012 06:11 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT kicks cpu out of idleness, but we haven't
> marked that spot as an exit from idleness.
> 
> Not doing so can cause RCU warnings such as:
> 
> [  732.788386] ===============================
> [  732.789803] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> [  732.790032] 3.7.0-rc1-next-20121019-sasha-00002-g6d8d02d-dirty #63 Tainted: G        W
> [  732.790032] -------------------------------
> [  732.790032] include/linux/rcupdate.h:738 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
> [  732.790032]
> [  732.790032] other info that might help us debug this:
> [  732.790032]
> [  732.790032]
> [  732.790032] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
> [  732.790032] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
> [  732.790032] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> [  732.790032] 2 locks held by trinity-child31/8252:
> [  732.790032]  #0:  (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff83a67528>] __schedule+0x178/0x8f0
> [  732.790032]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff81152bde>] cpuacct_charge+0xe/0x200
> [  732.790032]
> [  732.790032] stack backtrace:
> [  732.790032] Pid: 8252, comm: trinity-child31 Tainted: G        W    3.7.0-rc1-next-20121019-sasha-00002-g6d8d02d-dirty #63
> [  732.790032] Call Trace:
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff8118266b>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x10b/0x120
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81152c60>] cpuacct_charge+0x90/0x200
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81152bde>] ? cpuacct_charge+0xe/0x200
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81158093>] update_curr+0x1a3/0x270
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81158a6a>] dequeue_entity+0x2a/0x210
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81158ea5>] dequeue_task_fair+0x45/0x130
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff8114ae29>] dequeue_task+0x89/0xa0
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff8114bb9e>] deactivate_task+0x1e/0x20
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff83a67c29>] __schedule+0x879/0x8f0
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff8117e20d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff810a37a5>] ? kvm_async_pf_task_wait+0x1d5/0x2b0
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff83a67cf5>] schedule+0x55/0x60
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff810a37c4>] kvm_async_pf_task_wait+0x1f4/0x2b0
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81139e50>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff81139c25>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x25/0x90
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff810a3a66>] do_async_page_fault+0x56/0xa0
> [  732.790032]  [<ffffffff83a6a6e8>] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30

Thanks, applied to master for 3.7.


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