linux-kernel - Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:10 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Rank 3: getnstimeofday (warning)
> > 	Reported 309 times (2446 total reports)
> > 	[suspend resume] getnstimeofday() is called before timekeeping is
>         resumed
> 
> > Rank 6: hres_timers_resume (warning)
> > 	Reported 188 times (1024 total reports)
> > 	[suspend resume] hres_timers_resume() is incorrectly called with
> >       interrupts on
> 
> Both have the same root cause. Something enables interrupts in the 
> early resume path. IIRC, there was a culprit identified recently. 
> Rafael ?

This can be debugged automatically today, using lockdep, by using a 
'helper lock':

  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct lockdep_map, helper_lock);

Then mark the lock irq-safe by doing something like:

static void mark_lock_irqsafe(void)
{
	unsigned long flags;
	int cpu;

	local_irq_save(flags);
	irq_enter(0);

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
		lock_acquire(&per_cpu(helper_lock, cpu), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, 0);
		lock_release(&per_cpu(helper_lock, cpu), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, 0);
	}

	irq_exit(0);
	local_irq_restore(flags);
}

Then, the resume path, when it disables irqs, you can disallow 
irq-enable via:

	local_irq_disable();
	lock_acquire(&__get_cpu_var(helper_lock), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, 0);
	...
	<extensive suspend or resume codepaths, callbacks> 
	...
	lock_release(&__get_cpu_var(helper_lock), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, 0);
	local_irq_enable();

And lockdep will warn if any function inbetween enables IRQs, by 
emitting a splat about incorrectly enabled hardirqs. It will warn 
about the specific place and will emit a relevant backtrace, - not 
just the handler in general.

This should work just fine with current lockdep facilities.

Rafael?

	Ingo
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