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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG][tip/master] kernel panic while locking selftest at qspinlock_paravirt.h:137!
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:27:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A07111.6030900@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A06439.90002@hitachi.com>

On 07/10/2015 08:32 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On 2015/07/10 23:28, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:57:46PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Peter Zijlstra<peterz@infradead.org>  wrote:
>>>> Do we want to make double unlock non-fatal unconditionally?
>>> No, just don't BUG() out, don't crash the system - generate a warning?
>> So that would be a yes..
>>
>> Something like so then? Won't this generate a splat on that locking self
>> test then? And upset people?
> Hmm, yes, this still noisy...
> Can't we avoid double-unlock completely? it seems that this warning can
> happen randomly, which means pv-spinlock randomly broken, doesn't it?

It shouldn't randomly happen. The message should be printed at the first 
instance of double-unlock. If that is not case, there may be some 
problem in the code.

Anyway, I have an alternative fix that should better capture the problem:

-------------------------------
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h 
b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index 04ab181..92fc54f 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -286,15 +286,24 @@ __visible void __pv_queued_spin_unlock(struct 
qspinlock *lock)
  {
      struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
      struct pv_node *node;
+    u8 lockval = cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, 0);

      /*
       * We must not unlock if SLOW, because in that case we must first
       * unhash. Otherwise it would be possible to have multiple @lock
       * entries, which would be BAD.
       */
-    if (likely(cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, 0) == _Q_LOCKED_VAL))
+    if (likely(lockval == _Q_LOCKED_VAL))
          return;

+    if (unlikely(lockval != _Q_SLOW_VAL)) {
+        printk(KERN_WARNING
+               "pvqspinlock: lock 0x%lx has corrupted value 0x%x!\n",
+               (unsigned long)lock, atomic_read(&lock->val));
+        WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+        return;
+    }
+
      /*
       * Since the above failed to release, this must be the SLOW path.
       * Therefore start by looking up the blocked node and unhashing it.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-11  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 11:32 [BUG][tip/master] kernel panic while locking selftest at qspinlock_paravirt.h:137! Masami Hiramatsu
2015-07-10 13:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-10 13:57   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-10 14:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-11  0:32       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-07-11  1:27         ` Waiman Long [this message]
2015-07-11  5:05           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-07-12  3:09             ` Waiman Long
2015-07-11 10:22           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-11 10:27       ` Ingo Molnar

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