Re: [PATCH RFC v7 00/23] DEPT(Dependency Tracker)

Byungchul Park
2023-01-21T03:28:37Z

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 07:07:59PM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:23:49PM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:51:45AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:

[...]

> > > T0 T1 T2
> > > -- -- --
> > > unfair_read_lock(A);
> > > write_lock(B);
> > > write_lock(A);
> > > write_lock(B);
> > > fair_read_lock(A);
> > > write_unlock(B);
> > > read_unlock(A);
> > > read_unlock(A);
> > > write_unlock(B);
> > > write_unlock(A);
> > >
> > > T0: read_unlock(A) cannot happen if write_lock(B) is stuck by a B owner
> > > not doing either write_unlock(B) or read_unlock(B). In other words:
> > >
> > > 1. read_unlock(A) happening depends on write_unlock(B) happening.
> > > 2. read_unlock(A) happening depends on read_unlock(B) happening.
> > >
> > > T1: write_unlock(B) cannot happen if fair_read_lock(A) is stuck by a A
> > > owner not doing either write_unlock(A) or read_unlock(A). In other
> > > words:
> > >
> > > 3. write_unlock(B) happening depends on write_unlock(A) happening.
> > > 4. write_unlock(B) happening depends on read_unlock(A) happening.
> > >
> > > 1, 2, 3 and 4 give the following dependencies:
> > >
> > > 1. read_unlock(A) -> write_unlock(B)
> > > 2. read_unlock(A) -> read_unlock(B)
> > > 3. write_unlock(B) -> write_unlock(A)
> > > 4. write_unlock(B) -> read_unlock(A)
> > >
> > > With 1 and 4, there's a circular dependency so DEPT definitely report
> > > this as a problem.
> > >
> > > REMIND: DEPT focuses on waits and events.
> >
> > Do you have the test cases showing DEPT can detect this?
> >
>
> Just tried the following on your latest GitHub branch, I commented all
> but one deadlock case. Lockdep CAN detect it but DEPT CANNOT detect it.
> Feel free to double check.

I tried the 'queued read lock' test cases with DEPT on. I can see DEPT
detect and report it. But yeah.. it's too verbose now. It's because DEPT
is not aware of the test environment so it's just working hard to report
every case.

To make DEPT work with the selftest better, some works are needed. I
will work on it later or you please work on it.

The corresponding report is the following.

---

[ 4.583997] ===================================================
[ 4.585094] DEPT: Circular dependency has been detected.
[ 4.585620] 6.0.0-00023-g331e0412f735 #2 Tainted: G W
[ 4.586347] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.586942] summary
[ 4.587161] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.587757] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 4.587757]
[ 4.588198] context A
[ 4.588434] [S] lock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.588804] [W] lock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.589175] [E] unlock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.589565]
[ 4.589727] context B
[ 4.589963] [S] lock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.590375] [W] lock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.590749] [E] unlock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.591136]
[ 4.591295] [S]: start of the event context
[ 4.591716] [W]: the wait blocked
[ 4.592049] [E]: the event not reachable
[ 4.592443] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.593037] context A's detail
[ 4.593351] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.593944] context A
[ 4.594182] [S] lock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.594577] [W] lock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.594952] [E] unlock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.595341]
[ 4.595501] [S] lock(&rwlock_A:0):
[ 4.595848] [<ffffffff814eb244>] queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0xf4/0x170
[ 4.596547] stacktrace:
[ 4.596797] _raw_read_lock+0xcf/0x110
[ 4.597215] queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0xf4/0x170
[ 4.597766] dotest+0x30/0x7bc
[ 4.598118] locking_selftest+0x2c6f/0x2ead
[ 4.598602] start_kernel+0x5aa/0x6d5
[ 4.599017] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb
[ 4.599562]
[ 4.599721] [W] lock(&rwlock_B:0):
[ 4.600064] [<ffffffff814eb250>] queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0x100/0x170
[ 4.600823] stacktrace:
[ 4.601075] dept_wait+0x12c/0x1d0
[ 4.601465] _raw_write_lock+0xa0/0xd0
[ 4.601892] queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0x100/0x170
[ 4.602496] dotest+0x30/0x7bc
[ 4.602854] locking_selftest+0x2c6f/0x2ead
[ 4.603333] start_kernel+0x5aa/0x6d5
[ 4.603745] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb
[ 4.604298]
[ 4.604458] [E] unlock(&rwlock_A:0):
[ 4.604820] (N/A)
[ 4.605023] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.605617] context B's detail
[ 4.605930] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.606551] context B
[ 4.606790] [S] lock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.607163] [W] lock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.607534] [E] unlock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.607920]
[ 4.608080] [S] lock(&rwlock_B:0):
[ 4.608427] [<ffffffff814eb3b4>] queued_read_lock_hardirq_RE_Er+0xf4/0x170
[ 4.609113] stacktrace:
[ 4.609366] _raw_write_lock+0xc3/0xd0
[ 4.609788] queued_read_lock_hardirq_RE_Er+0xf4/0x170
[ 4.610371] dotest+0x30/0x7bc
[ 4.610730] locking_selftest+0x2c41/0x2ead
[ 4.611195] start_kernel+0x5aa/0x6d5
[ 4.611615] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb
[ 4.612164]
[ 4.612325] [W] lock(&rwlock_A:0):
[ 4.612671] [<ffffffff814eb3c0>] queued_read_lock_hardirq_RE_Er+0x100/0x170
[ 4.613369] stacktrace:
[ 4.613622] _raw_read_lock+0xac/0x110
[ 4.614047] queued_read_lock_hardirq_RE_Er+0x100/0x170
[ 4.614652] dotest+0x30/0x7bc
[ 4.615007] locking_selftest+0x2c41/0x2ead
[ 4.615468] start_kernel+0x5aa/0x6d5
[ 4.615879] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb
[ 4.616607]
[ 4.616769] [E] unlock(&rwlock_B:0):
[ 4.617132] (N/A)
[ 4.617336] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.617927] information that might be helpful
[ 4.618390] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 4.618981] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.0.0-00023-g331e0412f735 #2
[ 4.619886] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[ 4.620699] Call Trace:
[ 4.620958] <TASK>
[ 4.621182] dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x81
[ 4.621561] print_circle.cold+0x52b/0x545
[ 4.621983] ? print_circle+0xd0/0xd0
[ 4.622385] cb_check_dl+0x58/0x60
[ 4.622737] bfs+0xba/0x170
[ 4.623029] add_dep+0x85/0x170
[ 4.623355] ? from_pool+0x4c/0x160
[ 4.623714] __dept_wait+0x1fd/0x600
[ 4.624081] ? queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0x100/0x170
[ 4.624628] ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x9/0x50
[ 4.625108] ? queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0x100/0x170
[ 4.625652] dept_wait+0x12c/0x1d0
[ 4.626000] _raw_write_lock+0xa0/0xd0
[ 4.626417] queued_read_lock_hardirq_ER_rE+0x100/0x170
[ 4.626951] dotest+0x30/0x7bc
[ 4.627270] locking_selftest+0x2c6f/0x2ead
[ 4.627702] start_kernel+0x5aa/0x6d5
[ 4.628081] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb
[ 4.628597] </TASK>
---

The most important part is the following.

[ 4.588198] context A
[ 4.588434] [S] lock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.588804] [W] lock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.589175] [E] unlock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.589565]
[ 4.589727] context B
[ 4.589963] [S] lock(&rwlock_B:0)
[ 4.590375] [W] lock(&rwlock_A:0)
[ 4.590749] [E] unlock(&rwlock_B:0)

As I told you, DEPT treats a queued lock as a normal type lock, no
matter whether it's a read lock. That's why it prints just
'lock(&rwlock_A:0)' instead of 'read_lock(&rwlock_A:0)'. If needed, I'm
gonna change the format.

I checked the selftest code and found, LOCK(B) is transformed like:

LOCK(B) -> WL(B) -> write_lock(&rwlock_B)

That's why '&rwlock_B' is printed instead of just 'B', JFYI.

Plus, for your information, you should turn on CONFIG_DEPT to use it.

Byungchul