linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/11] rcu: Fix early call to rcu_idle

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Message-Id: <1318004530-705-12-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri,  7 Oct 2011 18:22:10 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] rcu: Fix early call to rcu_idle_enter()

On the irq exit path, tick_nohz_irq_exit()
may raise a softirq, which action leads to the wake up
path and select_task_rq_fair() that makes use of rcu
to iterate the domains.

This is an illegal use of RCU because we may be in RCU
extended quiescent state if we interrupted an RCU-idle
window in the idle loop:

[  132.978883] ===============================
[  132.978883] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  132.978883] -------------------------------
[  132.978883] kernel/sched_fair.c:1707 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883] other info that might help us debug this:
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  132.978883] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[  132.978883] 2 locks held by swapper/0:
[  132.978883]  #0:  (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff8105a729>] try_to_wake_up+0x39/0x2f0
[  132.978883]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8105556a>] select_task_rq_fair+0x6a/0xec0
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883] stack backtrace:
[  132.978883] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W   3.0.0+ #178
[  132.978883] Call Trace:
[  132.978883]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810a01f6>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe6/0x100
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81055c49>] select_task_rq_fair+0x749/0xec0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8105556a>] ? select_task_rq_fair+0x6a/0xec0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff812fe494>] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x54/0x150
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810a1f2d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8105a7c3>] try_to_wake_up+0xd3/0x2f0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81094f98>] ? ktime_get+0x68/0xf0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8105aa35>] wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81069dd5>] raise_softirq_irqoff+0x65/0x110
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8108eb65>] __hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x415/0x5a0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff812fe3ee>] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x5e/0xb0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8108ed08>] hrtimer_start+0x18/0x20
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8109c9c3>] tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick+0x393/0x450
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810694f2>] irq_exit+0xd2/0x100
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81829e96>] do_IRQ+0x66/0xe0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81820d53>] common_interrupt+0x13/0x13
[  132.978883]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8103434b>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0x10
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810a1f2d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810144ea>] default_idle+0xba/0x370
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810147fe>] amd_e400_idle+0x5e/0x130
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8100a9f6>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0x120
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff817f217f>] rest_init+0xef/0x150
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff817f20e2>] ? rest_init+0x52/0x150
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81ed9cf3>] start_kernel+0x3da/0x3e5
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81ed9346>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81ed944d>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x103/0x112

Fix this by calling rcu_idle_enter() after tick_nohz_irq_exit().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
---
 kernel/softirq.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 5c11dab..cca87e9 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -347,12 +347,12 @@ void irq_exit(void)
 	if (!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending())
 		invoke_softirq();
 
-	rcu_idle_enter();
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
 	/* Make sure that timer wheel updates are propagated */
 	if (idle_cpu(smp_processor_id()) && !in_interrupt() && !need_resched())
 		tick_nohz_irq_exit();
 #endif
+	rcu_idle_enter();
 	preempt_enable_no_resched();
 }
 
-- 
1.7.5.4

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