[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 7/8] drm/i915: Disable tracing points on PREEMPT_RT

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2021-12-14T14:03:30Z

Luca Abeni reported this:
| BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u8:2/15203/0x00000003
| CPU: 1 PID: 15203 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted 4.19.1-rt3 #10
| Call Trace:
| rt_spin_lock+0x3f/0x50
| gen6_read32+0x45/0x1d0 [i915]
| g4x_get_vblank_counter+0x36/0x40 [i915]
| trace_event_raw_event_i915_pipe_update_start+0x7d/0xf0 [i915]

The tracing events use trace_i915_pipe_update_start() among other events
use functions acquire spinlock_t locks which are transformed into
sleeping locks on PREEMPT_RT. A few trace points use
intel_get_crtc_scanline(), others use ->get_vblank_counter() wich also
might acquire a sleeping locks on PREEMPT_RT.
At the time the arguments are evaluated within trace point, preemption
is disabled and so the locks must not be acquired on PREEMPT_RT.

Based on this I don't see any other way than disable trace points on
PREMPT_RT.

Reported-by: Luca Abeni <lucabe72@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h
index 8104981a66044..64c3fa7cc05df 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_trace.h
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
#if !defined(_I915_TRACE_H_) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
#define _I915_TRACE_H_

+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+#define NOTRACE
+#endif
+
#include <linux/stringify.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
--
2.34.1