linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -rt] drop spurious rcu unlock

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Message-Id: <1185197839.2573.32.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:37:19 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] drop spurious rcu unlock

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:13 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:22:37AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > 
> > Strange rcu_read_unlock() which causes a imbalance, and boot hang.. I
> > didn't notice a reason for it, and removing it allows my system to make
> > progress.
> > 
> > This should go into the preempt-realtime-sched.patch
> 
> Strange.  I have been getting boots, kernbench runs, and rcutorture
> tests despite its being present.  Though perhaps it was the cause
> of the (non-fatal) "scheduling while atomic" I got during a kernbench
> run -- I was assuming it was my fault somehow.  Non-reproducible.  :-/
> 
> 						Thanx, Paul

I had a strange config (for real time) .. All the new options turned
off, and classic RCU .. However, a regular PREEMPT_RT kernel booted
fine. The classic RCU made it easy to spot this since the preempt count
goes negative.

I was wondering what kind of side effects would happen with the
preemptible RCU ..

> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context cc1(29651) at kernel/rtmutex.c:636
> in_atomic():1 [00000001], irqs_disabled():0
>  [<c0119f50>] __might_sleep+0xf3/0xf9
>  [<c031600e>] __rt_spin_lock+0x21/0x3c
>  [<c014102c>] get_zone_pcp+0x20/0x29
>  [<c0141a40>] free_hot_cold_page+0xdc/0x167
>  [<c013a3f4>] add_preempt_count+0x12/0xcc
>  [<c0110d92>] pgd_dtor+0x0/0x1
>  [<c015d865>] quicklist_trim+0xb7/0xe3
>  [<c0111025>] check_pgt_cache+0x19/0x1c
>  [<c0148df5>] free_pgtables+0x54/0x12c
>  [<c013a3f4>] add_preempt_count+0x12/0xcc
>  [<c014e5be>] unmap_region+0xeb/0x13b

This looks a little like what Rui Nuno Capela is seeing , but his kernel
hangs.

> BUG: scheduling while atomic: cc1/0x00000002/29745, CPU#0
>  [<c03146c8>] __sched_text_start+0xb0/0x4fe
>  [<c0116432>] try_to_wake_up+0x31b/0x326
>  [<c013a3f4>] add_preempt_count+0x12/0xcc
>  [<c013a3f4>] add_preempt_count+0x12/0xcc
>  [<c0314bfc>] schedule+0xe6/0x100
>  [<c03158db>] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0xc5/0x145
>  [<c0316027>] __rt_spin_lock+0x3a/0x3c
>  [<c014102c>] get_zone_pcp+0x20/0x29
>  [<c0141a40>] free_hot_cold_page+0xdc/0x167
>  [<c013a3f4>] add_preempt_count+0x12/0xcc
>  [<c0110d92>] pgd_dtor+0x0/0x1
>  [<c015d865>] quicklist_trim+0xb7/0xe3
>  [<c0111025>] check_pgt_cache+0x19/0x1c
>  [<c0148df5>] free_pgtables+0x54/0x12c
>  [<c013a3f4>] add_preempt_count+0x12/0xcc
>  [<c014e5be>] unmap_region+0xeb/0x13b
>  [<c014e861>] do_munmap+0xea/0xff
>  [<c014e8a7>] sys_munmap+0x31/0x40
>  [<c010276a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>  [<c0310000>] _shift_data_right_pages+0xb9/0xd1
>  =======================
> ---------------------------
> | preempt count: 00000002 ]
> | 2-level deep critical section nesting:
> ----------------------------------------
> .. [<c015d7c8>] .... quicklist_trim+0x1a/0xe3
> .....[<00000000>] ..   ( <= _stext+0x3fefff50/0x14)
> .. [<c031462b>] .... __sched_text_start+0x13/0x4fe
> .....[<00000000>] ..   ( <= _stext+0x3fefff50/0x14)
> 
> > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.22.1/kernel/sched.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.22.1.orig/kernel/sched.c	2007-07-22 16:47:37.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux-2.6.22.1/kernel/sched.c	2007-07-22 16:16:48.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -4900,7 +4900,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sched_yield(void)
> >  	 * no need to preempt or enable interrupts:
> >  	 */
> >  	spin_unlock_no_resched(&rq->lock);
> > -	rcu_read_unlock();
> > 
> >  	__schedule();
> > 
> > 
> > 
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