Re: WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:385 smp_call_function_many

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

Hi Liu,

On 04/18/2013 08:10 PM, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
>> It seems that with commit "smp: Give WARN()ing when calling
>> > smp_call_function_many()/single() in serving irq" I'm getting a bunch of these:
> This patch gives the warning even when the smp_call_function_many() is called in softirq context,
> because it will bring the possible deadlock cases, the example is below:
> CPUA                            CPUB
>                                 spin_lock(&spinlock)
>                                 Any irq coming, call the irq handler
>                                 irq_exit()
> spin_lock_irq(&spinlock)
> <== Blocking here due to
> CPUB hold it
>                                   __do_softirq()
>                                     run_timer_softirq()
>                                       timer_cb()
>                                         call smp_call_function_many()
>                                           send IPI interrupt to CPUA
>                                             wait_csd()
> 
> Then both CPUA and CPUB will be deadlocked here.

Right.

So commit f55a6faa3 ("hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()") followed by one
of the commits that used clock_was_set_delayed() may trigger the deadlock you've
described. (cc John Stultz...)


Thanks,
Sasha