linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kgdb: Fix kgdb_roundup_cpus() for arches who used smp_call

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:01:36 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
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        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
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        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kgdb: Fix kgdb_roundup_cpus() for arches who used
 smp_call_function()

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 02:49:26PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:18:43PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > Looking closely at it, it seems like a really bad idea to be calling
> > local_irq_enable() in kgdb_roundup_cpus().  If nothing else that seems
> > like it could violate spinlock semantics and cause a deadlock.
> > 
> > Instead, let's use a private csd alongside
> > smp_call_function_single_async() to round up the other CPUs.  Using
> > smp_call_function_single_async() doesn't require interrupts to be
> > enabled so we can remove the offending bit of code.
> 
> You might want to mention that the only reason this isn't a deadlock
> itself is because there is a timeout on waiting for the slaves to
> check-in.

dbg_master_lock must be owned to call kgdb_roundup_cpus() so
the calls to smp_call_function_single_async() should never deadlock the
calling CPU unless there has been a previous failure to round up (e.g.
cores that cannot react to the round up signal).

When there is a failure to round up when we resume, there is a window (before
whatever locks that prevented the IPI being serviced are released) during which
the system will deadlock if the debugger is re entered.

I don't think there is any point trying to round up a CPU that did not
previously respond... it should still have an IPI pending. The deadlock
can be eliminated by getting the round up code to avoid CPUs whose csd->flags
are non-zero either by checking the flag in the kgdb code or adding something
like smp_trycall_function_single_async().


Daniel.