Re: [PATCH V2] ACPI/OSL: Replace synchronize_rcu() with call_rcu() in the acpi_os_map_cleanup() to avoid dead lock with cpu hot plug

Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-08-13T23:45:10Z

On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:59:11 AM Lan Tianyu wrote:
> When cpu hotplug and evaluating ACPI method happen at the same time,
> there is a dead lock between ACPICA namespace lock and cpu hotplug lock.
>
> During cpu hotplug, cpu core will call acpi_cpu_soft_notify() to notify
> Linux ACPI under cpu hotplug lock. acpi_cpu_soft_notify() calls
> acpi_bus_get_device() to convert ACPI handle to struct acpi_struct.
> ACPICA namespace lock will be held in the acpi_bus_get_device().
>
> Evaluating ACPI method may involve in accessing system mem operation
> region and the associated address space will be unmapped under
> ACPICA namespace lock after accessing. Currently, osl.c uses RCU to
> protect io mem pages used by ACPICA. During unmapping, synchronize_rcu()
> will be called in the acpi_os_map_cleanup(). Synchronize_rcu() blocks
> cpu hotplug via getting cpu hotplug lock. This causes dead lock with
> cpu hotplug. Cpu hotplug thread holds cpu hotplug lock first and
> then get ACPICA namespace lock. The thread of evaluating ACPI method
> does the converse thing. This patch is to replace synchronize_rcu()
> with call_rcu() to avoid dead lock. call_rcu() can help to umap address
> space asynchronously via provided callback.
>
> Here is dead lock log.
> [ 97.149005] INFO: task bash:741 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
> [ 97.155914] Not tainted 3.16.0-rc5+ #671
> [ 97.160969] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> [ 97.169850] bash D ffff88014e214140 0 741 716 0x00000080
> [ 97.177885] ffff88009b9f3a10 0000000000000086 ffff88009dcfb840 ffff88009b9f3fd8
> [ 97.186316] 0000000000014140 0000000000014140 ffffffff81c18460 ffffffff81c40fc8
> [ 97.194746] ffffffff81c40fcc ffff88009dcfb840 00000000ffffffff ffffffff81c40fd0
> [ 97.203175] Call Trace:
> [ 97.205946] [<ffffffff817a1b29>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x29/0x70
> [ 97.213246] [<ffffffff817a34fa>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xca/0x1c0
> [ 97.220258] [<ffffffff817a360f>] mutex_lock+0x1f/0x2f
> [ 97.226085] [<ffffffff810bc8cc>] get_online_cpus+0x2c/0x50
> [ 97.232408] [<ffffffff8111bbd4>] synchronize_sched_expedited+0x64/0x1c0
> [ 97.240011] [<ffffffff8111bb65>] synchronize_sched+0x45/0x50
> [ 97.246522] [<ffffffff81431498>] acpi_os_map_cleanup.part.7+0x14/0x3e
> [ 97.253928] [<ffffffff81795c54>] acpi_os_unmap_iomem+0xe2/0xea
> [ 97.260636] [<ffffffff81795c6a>] acpi_os_unmap_memory+0xe/0x14
> [ 97.267355] [<ffffffff814459bc>] acpi_ev_system_memory_region_setup+0x2d/0x97
> [ 97.275550] [<ffffffff81459504>] acpi_ut_update_ref_count+0x24d/0x2de
> [ 97.282958] [<ffffffff814596af>] acpi_ut_update_object_reference+0x11a/0x18b
> [ 97.291055] [<ffffffff81459282>] acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x2e/0x31
> [ 97.298265] [<ffffffff8144ffdf>] acpi_ns_detach_object+0x7b/0x80
> [ 97.305180] [<ffffffff8144ef11>] acpi_ns_delete_namespace_subtree+0x47/0x81
> [ 97.313179] [<ffffffff81440488>] acpi_ds_terminate_control_method+0x85/0x11b
> [ 97.321276] [<ffffffff81454625>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x164/0x289
> [ 97.327988] [<ffffffff81454da6>] acpi_ps_execute_method+0x1c1/0x26c
> [ 97.335195] [<ffffffff8144f764>] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1c1/0x258
> [ 97.341814] [<ffffffff81451f86>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x126/0x22f
> [ 97.348826] [<ffffffff8144d1ac>] acpi_hw_execute_sleep_method+0x3d/0x68
> [ 97.356427] [<ffffffff8144d5cf>] ? acpi_hw_enable_all_runtime_gpes+0x17/0x19
> [ 97.364523] [<ffffffff8144deb0>] acpi_hw_legacy_wake+0x4d/0x9d
> [ 97.371239] [<ffffffff8144e599>] acpi_hw_sleep_dispatch+0x2a/0x2c
> [ 97.378243] [<ffffffff8144e5cb>] acpi_leave_sleep_state+0x17/0x19
> [ 97.385252] [<ffffffff8143335c>] acpi_pm_finish+0x3f/0x99
> [ 97.391471] [<ffffffff81108c49>] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x139/0x560
> [ 97.398972] [<ffffffff81109162>] pm_suspend+0xf2/0x370
> [ 97.404900] [<ffffffff81107e69>] state_store+0x79/0xf0
> [ 97.410824] [<ffffffff813bc4af>] kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
> [ 97.417038] [<ffffffff81284f3d>] sysfs_kf_write+0x3d/0x50
> [ 97.423260] [<ffffffff81284580>] kernfs_fop_write+0xe0/0x160
> [ 97.429776] [<ffffffff81210f47>] vfs_write+0xb7/0x1f0
> [ 97.435602] [<ffffffff81211ae6>] SyS_write+0x46/0xb0
> [ 97.441334] [<ffffffff8114d986>] ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x1f6/0x2a0
> [ 97.448544] [<ffffffff817a4ea9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [ 97.455361] INFO: task async-enable-no:749 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
> [ 97.463353] Not tainted 3.16.0-rc5+ #671
> [ 97.468391] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> [ 97.477271] async-enable-no D ffff88014e254140 0 749 2 0x00000080
> [ 97.485286] ffff88009de83bf0 0000000000000046 ffff88009b850000 ffff88009de83fd8
> [ 97.493714] 0000000000014140 0000000000014140 ffff880148305dc0 ffff880149804160
> [ 97.502142] 7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffff88009b850000
> [ 97.510573] Call Trace:
> [ 97.513344] [<ffffffff817a1689>] schedule+0x29/0x70
> [ 97.518974] [<ffffffff817a0b49>] schedule_timeout+0x1f9/0x270
> [ 97.525588] [<ffffffff81284bfe>] ? __kernfs_create_file+0x7e/0xa0
> [ 97.532599] [<ffffffff8128546b>] ? sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x9b/0x160
> [ 97.539903] [<ffffffff817a36b2>] __down_common+0x93/0xd8
> [ 97.546027] [<ffffffff817a376a>] __down_timeout+0x16/0x18
> [ 97.552252] [<ffffffff8110546c>] down_timeout+0x4c/0x60
> [ 97.558274] [<ffffffff81431f97>] acpi_os_wait_semaphore+0x43/0x57
> [ 97.565285] [<ffffffff8145a8f4>] acpi_ut_acquire_mutex+0x48/0x88
> [ 97.572200] [<ffffffff81435d1b>] ? acpi_match_device+0x4f/0x4f
> [ 97.578918] [<ffffffff8145250f>] acpi_get_data_full+0x3a/0x8e
> [ 97.585537] [<ffffffff81435b30>] acpi_bus_get_device+0x23/0x40
> [ 97.592253] [<ffffffff8145d839>] acpi_cpu_soft_notify+0x50/0xe6
> [ 97.599064] [<ffffffff810e1ddc>] notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x70
> [ 97.605776] [<ffffffff810e1eee>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
> [ 97.612983] [<ffffffff810bc993>] cpu_notify+0x23/0x50
> [ 97.618815] [<ffffffff810bcb98>] _cpu_up+0x168/0x180
> [ 97.624542] [<ffffffff810bcc5c>] _cpu_up_with_trace+0x2c/0xe0
> [ 97.631153] [<ffffffff810bd050>] ? disable_nonboot_cpus+0x1c0/0x1c0
> [ 97.638360] [<ffffffff810bd06f>] async_enable_nonboot_cpus+0x1f/0x70
> [ 97.645670] [<ffffffff810dda02>] kthread+0xd2/0xf0
> [ 97.651201] [<ffffffff810dd930>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
> [ 97.658117] [<ffffffff817a4dfc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>
> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>

This looks good.

I'll put it into my fixes queue, but I want it to spend a few days in linux-next
before pushing it, so it's going to be a post-merge window fix.

> ---
> drivers/acpi/osl.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> index bad25b0..d8674ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct acpi_ioremap {
> acpi_physical_address phys;
> acpi_size size;
> unsigned long refcount;
> + struct rcu_head rcu;
> };
>
> static LIST_HEAD(acpi_ioremaps);
> @@ -421,13 +422,18 @@ static void acpi_os_drop_map_ref(struct acpi_ioremap *map)
> list_del_rcu(&map->list);
> }
>
> +static void acpi_os_map_reclaim(struct rcu_head *rcu)
> +{
> + struct acpi_ioremap *map = container_of(rcu, struct acpi_ioremap, rcu);
> +
> + acpi_unmap(map->phys, map->virt);
> + kfree(map);
> +}
> +
> static void acpi_os_map_cleanup(struct acpi_ioremap *map)
> {
> - if (!map->refcount) {
> - synchronize_rcu();
> - acpi_unmap(map->phys, map->virt);
> - kfree(map);
> - }
> + if (!map->refcount)
> + call_rcu(&map->rcu, acpi_os_map_reclaim);
> }
>
> void __ref acpi_os_unmap_iomem(void __iomem *virt, acpi_size size)
>

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.