Re: Linux 6.3-rc2

[Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 11:21:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:53 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >
> > Warning backtraces in calls from ct_nmi_enter(),
> > seen randomly.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> I suspect this one is a bug in the warning, not in the kernel,
> although I have no idea why it would have started happening now.
> 
> This happens from an irq event, but that check is not *supposed* to
> happen at all from interrupts:
> 
>          * We dont accurately track softirq state in e.g.
>          * hardirq contexts (such as on 4KSTACKS), so only
>          * check if not in hardirq contexts:
> 
> but I think that the ct_nmi_enter() function was called before the
> hardirq count had even been incremented.

Indeed, ct_nmi_enter() is called very early on irq_enter(), before
HARDIRQ_OFFSET is added and the warning triggers at:

	if (!hardirq_count()) {
		if (softirq_count()) {
			/* like the above, but with softirqs */
			DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->softirqs_enabled); <---- HERE
		}

So the hardirq interrupted some code that has softirqs disabled (or
servicing) from the preempt mask POV but not from lockdep POV.

It says softirqs were last enabled/disabled at some random point, but the
function looks ok:

	 [   28.765386] softirqs last  enabled at (6328): [<c0103814>] vfp_sync_hwstate+0x48/0x8c
	 [   28.765575] softirqs last disabled at (6326): [<c01037cc>] vfp_sync_hwstate+0x0/0x8c

It would be interesting to see what the IRQ is interrupting. For example does it
happen while softirqs are serviced or just disabled? Or are we even outside any
of that? Any chance we can have a deeper stack trace? If not at least a print of
preempt_count() would be helpful.

Both would be awesome.

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 50d4863974e7..a7d1a65e5425 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -5523,6 +5523,7 @@ static noinstr void check_flags(unsigned long flags)
 	 */
 	if (!hardirq_count()) {
 		if (softirq_count()) {
+			printk("preempt_count(): %x", preempt_count());
 			/* like the above, but with softirqs */
 			DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->softirqs_enabled);
 		} else {


Thanks.