linux-kernel - Re: rcu, sched: WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 23771 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:337 rcu_read_unlock

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Message-ID: <20150118232255.GD9719@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:22:55 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: rcu, sched: WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 23771 at
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:337 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x369/0x550()

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 09:17:40AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi Paul, Lai,
> 
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
> kernel, I've stumbled on the following spew:
> 
> [  598.188036] WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 23771 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:337 rcu_read_unlock_special+0x369/0x550()
> [  598.188036] Modules linked in:
> [  598.188036] CPU: 30 PID: 23771 Comm: trinity-c118 Not tainted 3.19.0-rc4-next-20150116-sasha-00055-gb8e1507-dirty #1745
> [  598.188036]  ffffffff926e52dc ffff8801b4403c38 ffffffff91439fb2 0000000000000000
> [  598.188036]  0000000000000000 ffff8801b4403c78 ffffffff8e159e1a ffff8801b4403c58
> [  598.188036]  0000000000000000 ffff88002f093000 00000000ffffffff ffff8801b23b9290
> [  598.188036] Call Trace:
> [  598.188036] <IRQ> dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
> [  598.212152] warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:447)
> [  598.212152] warn_slowpath_null (kernel/panic.c:481)
> [  598.212152] rcu_read_unlock_special (kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:337 (discriminator 9))
> [  598.212152] ? select_task_rq_fair (include/linux/rcupdate.h:889 kernel/sched/fair.c:4740)
> [  598.212152] __rcu_read_unlock (kernel/rcu/update.c:97)
> [  598.212152] select_task_rq_fair (kernel/sched/fair.c:4805)
> [  598.212152] ? select_task_rq_fair (include/linux/rcupdate.h:889 kernel/sched/fair.c:4740)
> [  598.212152] ? try_to_wake_up (kernel/sched/core.c:1701)
> [  598.212152] try_to_wake_up (kernel/sched/core.c:1415 kernel/sched/core.c:1729)
> [  598.212152] wake_up_process (kernel/sched/core.c:1797 (discriminator 3))
> [  598.212152] hrtimer_wakeup (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1490)
> [  598.212152] __run_hrtimer (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1218 (discriminator 3))
> [  598.212152] ? hrtimer_interrupt (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:622 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1254)
> [  598.212152] ? hrtimer_get_res (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1480)
> [  598.212152] hrtimer_interrupt (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1307)
> [  598.212152] local_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:921)
> [  598.212152] smp_apic_timer_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:660 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:945)
> [  598.212152] apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:983)
> [  598.212152] <EOI> ? context_tracking_user_enter (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:809 kernel/context_tracking.c:106)
> [  598.212152] syscall_trace_leave (arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1640)
> [  598.212152] int_check_syscall_exit_work (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:577)

So RCU believes that an RCU read-side critical section that ended within
an interrupt handler (in this case, an hrtimer) somehow got preempted.
Which is not supposed to happen.

Do you have CONFIG_PROVE_RCU enabled?  If not, could you please enable it
and retry?

							Thanx, Paul

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