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From: Wang Tao <wangtao554@huawei.com>
To: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <mingo@redhat.com>, <peterz@infradead.org>,
	<juri.lelli@redhat.com>, <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	<dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>, <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	<bsegall@google.com>, <mgorman@suse.de>, <bristot@redhat.com>,
	<tglx@linutronix.de>, <frederic@kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <tanghui20@huawei.com>,
	<zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/core: Fix potential deadlock on rq lock
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:42:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250911124249.1154043-1-wangtao554@huawei.com> (raw)

When CPU 1 enters the nohz_full state, and the kworker on CPU 0 executes
the function sched_tick_remote, holding the lock on CPU1's rq
and triggering the warning WARN_ON_ONCE(delta > (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC * 3).
This leads to the process of printing the warning message, where the
console_sem semaphore is held. At this point, the print task on the
CPU1's rq cannot acquire the console_sem and joins the wait queue,
entering the UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. It waits for the console_sem to be
released and then wakes up. After the task on CPU 0 releases
the console_sem, it wakes up the waiting console_sem task.
In try_to_wake_up, it attempts to acquire the lock on CPU1's rq again,
resulting in a deadlock.

The triggering scenario is as follows:

CPU0								CPU1
sched_tick_remote
WARN_ON_ONCE(delta > (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC * 3)

report_bug							con_write
printk

console_unlock
								do_con_write
								console_lock
								down(&console_sem)
								list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
up(&console_sem)
wake_up_q(&wake_q)
try_to_wake_up
__task_rq_lock
_raw_spin_lock

This patch fixes the issue by deffering all printk console printing
during the lock holding period.

Fixes: d84b31313ef8 ("sched/isolation: Offload residual 1Hz scheduler tick")
Signed-off-by: Wang Tao <wangtao554@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index be00629f0ba4..8b2d5b5bfb93 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5723,8 +5723,10 @@ static void sched_tick_remote(struct work_struct *work)
 				 * Make sure the next tick runs within a
 				 * reasonable amount of time.
 				 */
+				printk_deferred_enter();
 				u64 delta = rq_clock_task(rq) - curr->se.exec_start;
 				WARN_ON_ONCE(delta > (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC * 3);
+				printk_deferred_exit();
 			}
 			curr->sched_class->task_tick(rq, curr, 0);
 
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-11 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-11 12:42 Wang Tao [this message]
2025-09-11 13:53 ` [PATCH] sched/core: Fix potential deadlock on rq lock Peter Zijlstra
2025-09-11 15:02   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-11 15:14     ` Phil Auld
2025-09-11 15:38       ` Frederic Weisbecker

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