linux-kernel - Re: lots of suspicious RCU traces

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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:16:36 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lots of suspicious RCU traces

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:44:11AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
 > 2012/10/25 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>:
 > > On (10/25/12 09:06), Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
 > >> >> > My understanding is (I may be wrong) that we can schedule() from ptrace chain to
 > >> >> > some arbitrary task, which will continue its execution from the point where RCU assumes
 > >> >> > CPU as not idle, while CPU in fact still in idle state -- no one said rcu_idle_exit()
 > >> >> > (or similar) prior to schedule() call.
 > >> >>
 > >> >> Yeah but when we are in syscall_trace_leave(), the CPU shouldn't be in
 > >> >> RCU idle mode. That's where the bug is. How do you manage to trigger
 > >> >> this bug?
 > >> >
 > >> > strace -f <anything>
 > >> I can't reproduce. Can you send me your config?
 > >
 > > sure, attached.
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > Sergey, Dave,
 > 
 > Does the patch I just sent you fix the issue?

I only saw this happening after hours of fuzzing.
Right now I keep running into other issues before that gets a chance to happen,
so I've not seen it in a while.

I'll apply it to my tree, and run with it though.

If I see it again, you'll be first to know :)

	Dave

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