[PATCH 2/4] x86: Enter rcu extended qs after idle notifier call

Frederic Weisbecker
2011-08-20T17:31:22Z

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] [<ffffffff81051c8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff81051cd5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff817d6f22>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff817d6f71>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff810018a0>] enter_idle+0x20/0x30
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff81001995>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0x110
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff817a7465>] rest_init+0xe5/0x140
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff817a73c8>] ? rest_init+0x48/0x140
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff81cc5ca3>] start_kernel+0x3d1/0x3dc
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff81cc5321>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
[ 1.275635] [<ffffffff81cc5412>] 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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 3d56f0d..1efd185 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_enter_idle(true);
+ tick_nohz_enter_idle(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
@@ -145,7 +150,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
__exit_idle();
}

- tick_nohz_exit_idle(true);
+ tick_nohz_exit_idle(false);
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
--
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