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Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:27:23 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	fweisbec@...il.com, luto@...capital.net, will.deacon@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
	lcapitulino@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5 6/5] context_tracking: fix exception_enter when
 already in IN_KERNEL

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 02:43:19PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> If exception_enter happens when already in IN_KERNEL state, the
> code still calls context_tracking_exit, which ends up in
> rcu_eqs_exit_common, which explodes with a WARN_ON when it is
> called in a situation where dynticks are not enabled.
> 
> This can be avoided by having exception_enter only switch to
> IN_KERNEL state if the current state is not already IN_KERNEL.

Ugh...  Time to formally verify, sounds like...

							Thanx, Paul

> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
> ---
> Frederic, you will want this "bonus" patch, too :)
> 
> Thanks to Luiz for finding this one. Whatever I was running did not
> trigger this issue...
> 
>  include/linux/context_tracking.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking.h b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
> index b65fd1420e53..9da230406e8c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/context_tracking.h
> +++ b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
> @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ static inline enum ctx_state exception_enter(void)
>  		return 0;
> 
>  	prev_ctx = this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state);
> -	context_tracking_exit(prev_ctx);
> +	if (prev_ctx != IN_KERNEL)
> +		context_tracking_exit(prev_ctx);
> 
>  	return prev_ctx;
>  }
> 

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