From: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
To: wen.yang@linux.dev
Cc: "Nam Cao" <namcao@linutronix.de>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] rv/reactors: use context-sensitive lockdep wait type in rv_react()
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:34:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38decc4f7ef5b6f03b37705c7e97f22a7e40d7e2.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26526e555baa5118325b2383e9f7f0f8f9b6a199.1786294920.git.wen.yang@linux.dev>
On Mon, 2026-08-10 at 01:10 +0800, wen.yang@linux.dev wrote:
> From: Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>
>
> Reactors must not explicitly take locks, so they should comply with
> LD_WAIT_FREE. However, reactor callbacks can run with preemption
> enabled on any kernel (not just PREEMPT_RT). If a timer interrupt
> fires during the callback, the interrupt exit path schedules and
> acquires rq->__lock (LD_WAIT_SPIN) while the lockdep override map that
> declared LD_WAIT_FREE is still held, triggering a spurious
> "Invalid wait context" warning:
>
> [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> context-{5:5}
> 1 lock held by kunit_try_catch/209:
> #0: (rv_react_map-wait-type-override){+.+.}-{1:1}
> kunit_try_catch/209 is trying to lock:
> ffff8a743ed3e8a0 (&rq->__lock){-...}-{2:2}
>
> Fixes: 69d8895cb9a9 ("rv: Add explicit lockdep context for reactors")
> Suggested-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
You came up with the idea, I at most suggested how I'd like it worded in the
comment.
Anyway, I'd appreciate comments/acks from the other folks in the loop, but from
my side this looks good.
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Thanks,
Gabriele
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>
> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
> ---
> kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c b/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c
> index 2f5fc8d18dea..5830229210e8 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c
> @@ -465,18 +465,28 @@ int init_rv_reactors(struct dentry *root_dir)
>
> void rv_react(struct rv_monitor *monitor, const char *msg, ...)
> {
> - static DEFINE_WAIT_OVERRIDE_MAP(rv_react_map, LD_WAIT_FREE);
> + /*
> + * Reactors must not explicitly take locks, so they should be
> + * LD_WAIT_FREE. However, reactor callbacks can run with preemption
> + * enabled, meaning the preempting code (e.g. the scheduler taking
> + * rq->__lock at LD_WAIT_SPIN) may violate that constraint. Use
> + * LD_WAIT_SPIN in preemptible contexts to avoid false-positive
> lockdep
> + * reports; keep LD_WAIT_FREE in NMI/hardirq where preemption is
> + * disabled and the scheduler cannot run.
> + */
> + static DEFINE_WAIT_OVERRIDE_MAP(rv_react_map, LD_WAIT_SPIN);
> + static DEFINE_WAIT_OVERRIDE_MAP(rv_react_map_atomic, LD_WAIT_FREE);
> + struct lockdep_map * __maybe_unused map;
> va_list args;
>
> if (!rv_reacting_on() || !monitor->react)
> return;
>
> + map = (in_nmi() || in_hardirq()) ? &rv_react_map_atomic :
> &rv_react_map;
> va_start(args, msg);
> -
> - lock_map_acquire_try(&rv_react_map);
> + lock_map_acquire_try(map);
> monitor->react(msg, args);
> - lock_map_release(&rv_react_map);
> -
> + lock_map_release(map);
> va_end(args);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rv_react);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-12 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-09 17:10 [PATCH v3 0/4] rv/reactors: fix lockdep warning and add KUnit tests wen.yang
2026-08-09 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] rv/reactors: use context-sensitive lockdep wait type in rv_react() wen.yang
2026-08-12 12:34 ` Gabriele Monaco [this message]
2026-08-09 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] rv/reactors: propagate rv_register_reactor() error from reactor init wen.yang
2026-08-09 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] rv/reactors: export rv_register_reactor() and rv_unregister_reactor() wen.yang
2026-08-09 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] rv/reactors: add KUnit tests for reactor registration and dispatch wen.yang
2026-08-12 12:58 ` Gabriele Monaco
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