Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.33.5-rt23

Will Schmidt
2010-06-10T15:57:01Z

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 08:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Will Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 18:44 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I'm still on 2.6.33.5-rt22 on powerpc, and have run into a couple
> > "sleeping function called from invalid context..." BUGs. The first was
> > during system boot, second during a 'make'.
> >
> > relevant code paths don't seem to have changed between -rt22 and -rt23,
> > so I think still valid.. :-)
> >
> > This is on a POWER7 system, which may have opened up some timing
> > windows, wrt previous runs on POWER6 systems.
> >
> >
> > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > kernel/rtmutex.c:684
>
> > [c000000078cf2cf0] [c000000000131a04] .irq_to_desc_alloc_node+0xdc/0x2b8
>
> Grr. I thought I had the SPARSE_IRQ stuff disabled on -rt, but seems
> it came back somehow. Can you disable that, or does you machine depend
> on it ?

I'm not sure whether it is required by the architecture. I do see that
SPARSE_IRQ is disabled in arch/x86/Kconfig with a !PREEMPT_RT, but I
don't see an equivalent 'disable' in arch/powerpc/Kconfig.

> > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:684
> > pcnt: 0 0 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 4760, name: make
> > Call Trace:
> > [c0000000792978b0] [c000000000015550] .show_stack+0xd8/0x218 (unreliable)
> > [c000000079297990] [c0000000006a99c8] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c
> > [c000000079297a10] [c00000000006cea8] .__might_sleep+0x134/0x15c
> > [c000000079297ab0] [c0000000006a2f78] .rt_spin_lock+0x4c/0x9c
> > [c000000079297b40] [c0000000000a1ff0] .get_signal_to_deliver+0xcc/0x4ec
> > [c000000079297c50] [c000000000018604] .do_signal_pending.clone.0+0x6c/0x2e0
> > [c000000079297d90] [c0000000000188b0] .do_signal+0x38/0x74
> > [c000000079297e30] [c000000000008b40] user_work+0x24/0x28
>
> Does the patch below fix it ?

Probably.. :-) I'm running with the patch now, and no repeats of that
BUG yet.

Thanks,
-Will

>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
> -----
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
> index 00b5078..fa580f9 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -120,6 +120,14 @@ static int do_signal_pending(sigset_t *oldset, struct pt_regs *regs)
> int ret;
> int is32 = is_32bit_task();
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
> + /*
> + * Fully-preemptible kernel does not need interrupts disabled:
> + */
> + local_irq_enable();
> + preempt_check_resched();
> +#endif
> +
> if (current_thread_info()->local_flags & _TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK)
> oldset = &current->saved_sigmask;
> else if (!oldset)