Re: [Linux 2.6.29-rc2] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Monday 26 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 26 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [...]
> > > It would work like this, you could mark IRQs as disabled 'permanently':
> > > 
> > >    force_irqs_off_start();
> > >    ...
> > >    force_irqs_off_end();
> > > 
> > > you could mark an arbitrarily complex code sequence that way, and ftrace 
> > > would emit a WARN_ONCE() if irqs are enable anytime during that sequence - 
> > > by using the irq-tracking facilities we have for the irqsoff tracer (and 
> > > which we also have for lockdep).
> > > 
> > > Would that be useful?
> > 
> > Not sure, I only know a little about ftrace, I really can't judge.
> 
> The instrumentation is really simple, see kernel/tracing/trace_irqsoff.c:
> 
> we call this function if hardirqs are disabled anywhere in the kernel:
> 
>  static inline void
>  start_critical_timing(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
> 
> and we call this function if hardirqs are enabled anywhere in the kernel:
> 
>  static inline void
>  stop_critical_timing(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
> 
> that's all. You need a single line check in stop_critical_timing(), 
> something like this:
> 
>    WARN_ON_ONCE(per_cpu(hardirqs_forced_off, this_cpu));
>
> > Anyway, I think that putting the checks directly into the code path in 
> > question would be more reliable and would still work without ftrace.
> 
> More reliable than a WARN() triggering right at the buggy place that 
> erroneously enables IRQs? Regardless of how obscurely it's done - whether 
> it's a side effect of something, etc. etc.?

Actually, yes.
 
> With such a generic facility you'd not have to put in any explicit checks 
> anywhere _at all_.

That's under the assumption that the traces we get are always useful.

> In fact whatever check you put in it's _always_ going to be fundamentally 
> more fragile than direct instrumentation: you cannot possibly check all 
> possible places that enable interrupts. (they could be disabling 
> interrupts as a _restore_irqs() sequence for example)

In this particular case, I'm not really interested in that.  What I'm
interested in is which driver's ->suspend_late() or ->resume_early() (or the
equivalents for sysdevs) has enabled interrupts, which is quite easy to
check directly.

Thanks,
Rafael