From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753404Ab1IZKUZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:20:25 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:54873 "EHLO mail-yi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752282Ab1IZKTj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:19:39 -0400 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: LKML , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: [PATCH 5/7] x86: Enter rcu extended qs after idle notifier call Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:19:10 +0200 Message-Id: <1317032352-25571-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.4 In-Reply-To: <1317032352-25571-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> References: <1317032352-25571-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The idle notifier, called by enter_idle(), enters into rcu read side critical section but at that time we already switched into rcu dynticks idle mode. And it's illegal to use rcu_read_lock() in that state. This results in rcu reporting its bad mood: [ 1.275635] WARNING: at include/linux/rcupdate.h:194 __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110() [ 1.275635] Hardware name: AMD690VM-FMH [ 1.275635] Modules linked in: [ 1.275635] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc6+ #252 [ 1.275635] Call Trace: [ 1.275635] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0 [ 1.275635] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [ 1.275635] [] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110 [ 1.275635] [] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20 [ 1.275635] [] enter_idle+0x20/0x30 [ 1.275635] [] cpu_idle+0xa5/0x110 [ 1.275635] [] rest_init+0xe5/0x140 [ 1.275635] [] ? rest_init+0x48/0x140 [ 1.275635] [] start_kernel+0x3d1/0x3dc [ 1.275635] [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135 [ 1.275635] [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf4 [ 1.275635] ---[ end trace a22d306b065d4a66 ]--- Fix this by entering rcu extended quiescent state later, just before the CPU goes to sleep. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 19ca231..dee2e6c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void) /* endless idle loop with no priority at all */ while (1) { - tick_nohz_idle_enter(true); + tick_nohz_idle_enter(false); while (!need_resched()) { rmb(); @@ -136,7 +136,12 @@ void cpu_idle(void) enter_idle(); /* Don't trace irqs off for idle */ stop_critical_timings(); + + /* enter_idle() needs rcu for notifiers */ + rcu_enter_nohz(); pm_idle(); + rcu_exit_nohz(); + start_critical_timings(); /* In many cases the interrupt that ended idle -- 1.7.5.4