From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] arm64/entry: Don't disable preemption in debug_exception_enter() with RT kernel
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 18:25:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519222524.886454-1-longman@redhat.com> (raw)
Commit d8bb6718c4db ("arm64: Make debug exception handlers visible from
RCU") introduces debug_exception_enter() and debug_exception_exit()
where preemption is explicitly disabled. With a PREEMPT_RT debug kernel,
the following bug report can happen.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 15255, name: gdb_app
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
1 lock held by gdb_app/15255:
#0: ffff10007f41b7d8 (&sighand->siglock){..}-{3:3}, at: force_sig_info_to_task+0x34/0x130
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffff800080081ea8>] debug_exception_enter+0x18/0x70
:
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xac/0x130
show_stack+0x1c/0x24
dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0xe0
dump_stack+0x14/0x2c
__might_resched+0x178/0x230
rt_spin_lock+0x58/0x120
force_sig_info_to_task+0x34/0x130
force_sig_fault+0x58/0x80
arm64_force_sig_fault+0x44/0x70
send_user_sigtrap+0x5c/0xa0
brk_handler+0x38/0x5c
do_debug_exception+0x78/0x110
el0_dbg+0x50/0x1e0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x150
el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180
Fix that by blocking the preempt_disable()/preempt_enable_no_resched()
calls when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
index c7a23f7c2212..191441b22b7c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
@@ -290,15 +290,17 @@ static __always_inline void fpsimd_syscall_exit(void)
}
/*
- * In debug exception context, we explicitly disable preemption despite
- * having interrupts disabled.
+ * In debug exception context, we explicitly disable preemption except for
+ * PREEMPT_RT kernel as rt_spin_lock() can be called.
+ *
* This serves two purposes: it makes it much less likely that we would
* accidentally schedule in exception context and it will force a warning
* if we somehow manage to schedule by accident.
*/
static void debug_exception_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- preempt_disable();
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
+ preempt_disable();
/* This code is a bit fragile. Test it. */
RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_is_watching(), "exception_enter didn't work");
@@ -307,7 +309,8 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(debug_exception_enter);
static void debug_exception_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- preempt_enable_no_resched();
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
+ preempt_enable_no_resched();
}
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(debug_exception_exit);
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-19 22:25 Waiman Long [this message]
2026-05-20 0:23 ` [PATCH] arm64/entry: Don't disable preemption in debug_exception_enter() with RT kernel Luis Claudio R. Goncalves
2026-05-20 6:19 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-20 11:23 ` Luis Claudio R. Goncalves
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