linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.34-rc1: rcu lockdep bug?

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Message-ID: <2375c9f91003112356g1b4164e4pb5f63f0e0e2f310a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:56:03 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc1: rcu lockdep bug?

(Cc'ing netdev)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:45:56AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:05:38PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
>>> Hello, Paul and Peter,
>>>
>>> Attached is the lockdep warning that I triggered today.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if this is a bug of rcu lockdep, because I am
>>> testing my patch when this occurred. However, in the backtrace,
>>> there is none of the functions that I touched, weird.
>>>
>>> So, please help to check if this is a bug of rcu lockdep.
>>
>>This sort of thing is caused by acquiring the same lock with softirq
>>(AKA BH) blocked and not, which can result in self-deadlock.
>>
>>There was such a bug in the RCU lockdep stuff in -tip, but it has long
>>since been fixed.  If you were seeing that bug, rcu_do_batch() would
>>be on the stack, which it does not appear to be.
>>
>>So does your patch involve the usbfs_mutex?  Or attempt to manipulate
>>vfs/fs state from withing networking softirq/BH context?
>>
>
> Nope, it is a patch for netpoll, nothing related with usb, nor vfs.
>

Ok, after decoding the lockdep output, it looks like that
netif_receive_skb() should call rcu_read_lock_bh() instead of rcu_read_lock()?
But I don't know if all callers of netif_receive_skb() are in softirq context.

Paul, what do you think?

Thank you.
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