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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:53:20 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] Re: [PATCH -tip 0/2] Temporary RCU fixes for notrace
 and hotplug CPU

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:02:33PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:25:49PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>>>> * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:00:47AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>>> btw., i'm still seeing crashes with the latest RCU bits:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [   20.621740] Testing event sys_enter_futex: OK
>>>>>> [   20.629738] Testing event sys_exit_futex: OK
>>>>>> [   20.637737] Testing event lock_acquire: [reboot]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Possibly due to infinite recursion as well. Config attached.
>>>>> Color me confused...
>>>>>
>>>>> Unless someone has a better idea, I will send in a patch that adds
>>>>> "notrace" to every RCU API member used by any file in the kernel
>>>>> that has "trace" in its name (excluding ptrace.c and rcutree_trace.c,
>>>>> of course).  This list is as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> 	call_rcu()
>>>>> 	call_rcu_sched()
>>>>> 	rcu_read_lock()
>>>>> 	rcu_read_unlock()
>>>>>
>>>>> So, any better ideas?
>>>> Tracers using RCU should use the _notrace() version of read_lock/unlock.
>>>> I think the callers should be fixed rather than RCU.
>>>>
>>>> Tracepoints have been designed to use the _notrace variant on the
>>>> instrumentation site. The core of tracepoint management use
>>>> call_rcu_sched(), which can be traced without any problem.
>>>>
>>>> I have not followed the late tracing development as closely though, so
>>>> errors might have crept in.
>>> Or I might have inadvertently broken something in a non-obvious (to me,
>>> anyway) manner.
>>>
>>> So, would you be willing to look at commit bc33f24bd in the -tip
>>> tree and see if there is anything I broke other than the now-fixed
>>> rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() and rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace()?
>>> And for that matter, whether my alleged fix for these two API members
>>> really does fix the problem (-tip commit 7c614d6461)?
>>>
>>> The -tip tree is at:
>>>
>>> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
>>>
>>> And these patches are on the tip/core/rcu branch.
>>>
>> sure, here we go:
>>
>>  static inline void rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(void)
>>  {
>>         preempt_disable_notrace();
>> +       __acquire(RCU_SCHED);
>> +       rcu_read_acquire();
>>  }
>>
>> and
>>
>>
>>  static inline void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
>>  {
>> +       rcu_read_release();
>> +       __release(RCU_SCHED);
>>         preempt_enable_notrace();
>>  }
>>
>> will make those _notrace primitives call into lockdep. I don't think
>> this is correct, and this might be causing your problem.
>>
>> rcu_read_acquire/release are calling lock_acquire/release, those should
>> be removed.
>>
>> __acquire() simply seems to be defined to a gcc "context" attribute,
>> probably for the sparse checker. I think it should be safe to leave them
>> there.
> 
> Thank you for looking this over, Mathieu!!!  Please see below for patch.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members.
> 
> The lockdep annotations rcu_read_acquire() and rcu_read_release()
> might lead to infinite looping if called from lockdep.  So this patch
> removes them.
> 
> Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
>  rcupdate.h |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 8b4422c..95e0615 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ static inline notrace void rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(void)
>  {
>  	preempt_disable_notrace();
>  	__acquire(RCU_SCHED);
> -	rcu_read_acquire();
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -211,7 +210,6 @@ static inline void rcu_read_unlock_sched(void)
>  }
>  static inline notrace void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
>  {
> -	rcu_read_release();
>  	__release(RCU_SCHED);
>  	preempt_enable_notrace();
>  }
> 
> 


I remembered I have suggested this ...

Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>

Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> 
>>  {
>>  	preempt_disable_notrace();
>> +	__acquire(RCU_SCHED);
>> +	rcu_read_acquire();
>>  }
>>  
> 
> It may cause infinity recursion.
> rcu_read_acquire() calls rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace()
> before current->lockdep_recursion is set to 1 when tracing in on,
> thus infinity recursion occurs.
> 
> Lai
> 


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