Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 4

Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-05T00:10:27Z

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:51:15PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 11:59:31PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 01:53:58 PM Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 10:54:07PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 09:18:03 PM Sedat Dilek wrote:

[ . . . ]

> > > > > [ 1144.482666] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
> > > > > [ 1144.483000] intel_pstate CPU 1 exiting
> > > > > [ 1144.486064]
> > > > > [ 1144.486065] ===============================
> > > > > [ 1144.486067] smpboot: CPU 1 didn't die...
> > > > > [ 1144.486067] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> > > > > [ 1144.486069] 3.19.0-rc7-next-20150204.1-iniza-small #1 Not tainted
> > > > > [ 1144.486070] -------------------------------
> > > > > [ 1144.486072] include/trace/events/tlb.h:35 suspicious
> > > > > rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> > > > > [ 1144.486073]
> > > > > [ 1144.486073] other info that might help us debug this:
> > > > > [ 1144.486073]
> > > > > [ 1144.486074]
> > > > > [ 1144.486074] RCU used illegally from offline CPU!
> > > > > [ 1144.486074] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> > > > > [ 1144.486076] no locks held by swapper/1/0.
> > > > > [ 1144.486076]
> > > > > [ 1144.486076] stack backtrace:
> > > > > [ 1144.486079] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted
> > > > > 3.19.0-rc7-next-20150204.1-iniza-small #1
> > > > > [ 1144.486080] Hardware name: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
> > > > > 530U3BI/530U4BI/530U4BH/530U3BI/530U4BI/530U4BH, BIOS 13XK 03/28/2013
> > > > > [ 1144.486085] 0000000000000001 ffff88011a44fe18 ffffffff817e370d
> > > > > 0000000000000011
> > > > > [ 1144.486088] ffff88011a448290 ffff88011a44fe48 ffffffff810d6847
> > > > > ffff8800c66b9600
> > > > > [ 1144.486091] 0000000000000001 ffff88011a44c000 ffffffff81cb3900
> > > > > ffff88011a44fe78
> > > > > [ 1144.486092] Call Trace:
> > > > > [ 1144.486099] [<ffffffff817e370d>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x65
> > > > > [ 1144.486104] [<ffffffff810d6847>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
> > >
> > > As near as I can tell, idle_task_exit() is running on an offline CPU,
> > > then calling switch_mm() which contains trace_tlb_flush(), which uses RCU.
> > > And RCU is objecting to being used from a CPU that it is ignoring.
> > >
> > > One approach would be to push RCU's idea of when the CPU goes offline
> > > down into arch code in this case, using some Kconfig symbol and
> > > the usual conditional compilation. Another approach would be to
> > > invoke the trace calls under cpu_online(), for example, for the
> > > first such call in switch_mm():
> > >
> > > if (cpu_online(smp_processor_id()))
> > > trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
> > >
> > > The compiler would discard this if tracing was disabled.
> >
> > That looks like less intrusive to me.
>
> One possible concern is increased context-switch path length, but that
> would only be the case where tracing is enabled by default.

Nevertheless, here is an untested patch. Does it help?

Thanx, Paul

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x86: Omit switch_mm() tracing for offline CPUs

The architecture-specific switch_mm() function can be called by offline
CPUs, but includes event tracing, which cannot be legally carried out
on offline CPUs. This results in a lockdep-RCU splat. This commit fixes
this splat by omitting the tracing when the CPU is offline.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index 40269a2bf6f9..7e7f2445fbc9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,

/* Re-load page tables */
load_cr3(next->pgd);
- trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+ if (cpu_online(smp_processor_id()))
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);

/* Stop flush ipis for the previous mm */
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));
@@ -84,7 +85,8 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
* to make sure to use no freed page tables.
*/
load_cr3(next->pgd);
- trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+ if (cpu_online(smp_processor_id()))
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);
}
}