linux-kernel - Re: Suspicious RCU usage at boot w/ arm ipi trace events?

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:49:55 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suspicious RCU usage at boot w/ arm ipi trace events?

On 06/18, John Stultz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> > On 06/16/2015 09:46 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 05:41:29PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The tracepoint 'trace_ipi_entry' in handle_IPI()  is using RCU and we
> >>> haven't called irq_enter() yet at the point. Does this tracepoint need
> >>> to have _rcuidle() added to it?
> >> Yes, I believe that would fix this problem.
> >>
> >
> > Ok... here's the patch. I see the problem on my device and applying this
> > patch fixes it.
> >
> > ----8<----
> >
> > From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> > Subject: [PATCH] ARM: smp: Silence suspicious RCU usage with ipi tracepoints
> >
> > John Stultz reports an RCU splat on boot with ARM ipi trace
> > events enabled.
> >
> > ===============================
> > [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> > 4.1.0-rc7-00033-gb5bed2f #153 Not tainted
> > -------------------------------
> > include/trace/events/ipi.h:68 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> >
> > other info that might help us debug this:
> >
> > RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
> > rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> > RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> > no locks held by swapper/0/0.
> >
> > stack backtrace:
> > CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-00033-gb5bed2f #153
> > Hardware name: Qualcomm (Flattened Device Tree)
> > [<c0216b08>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c02136e8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> > [<c02136e8>] (show_stack) from [<c075e678>] (dump_stack+0x70/0xbc)
> > [<c075e678>] (dump_stack) from [<c0215a80>] (handle_IPI+0x428/0x604)
> > [<c0215a80>] (handle_IPI) from [<c020942c>] (gic_handle_irq+0x54/0x5c)
> > [<c020942c>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c0766604>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x7c)
> > Exception stack(0xc09f3f48 to 0xc09f3f90)
> > 3f40:                   00000001 00000001 00000000 c09f73b8 c09f4528 c0a5de9c
> > 3f60: c076b4f0 00000000 00000000 c09ef108 c0a5cec1 00000001 00000000 c09f3f90
> > 3f80: c026bf60 c0210ab8 20000113 ffffffff
> > [<c0766604>] (__irq_svc) from [<c0210ab8>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x20/0x3c)
> > [<c0210ab8>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c02647f0>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x2c0/0x5dc)
> > [<c02647f0>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<c099bc1c>] (start_kernel+0x358/0x3c4)
> > [<c099bc1c>] (start_kernel) from [<8020807c>] (0x8020807c)
> >
> > At this point in the IPI handling path we haven't called
> > irq_enter() yet, so RCU doesn't know that we're about to exit
> > idle and properly warns that we're using RCU from an idle CPU.
> > Use trace_ipi_entry_rcuidle() instead of trace_ipi_entry() so
> > that RCU is informed about our exit from idle.
> >
> > Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> > Fixes: 365ec7b17327 "ARM: add IPI tracepoints"
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> > index 13a91d390832..03eb8a446dca 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> > @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ void handle_IPI(int ipinr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> >         struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
> >
> >         if ((unsigned)ipinr < NR_IPI) {
> > -               trace_ipi_entry(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> > +               trace_ipi_entry_rcuidle(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> >                 __inc_irq_stat(cpu, ipi_irqs[ipinr]);
> >         }
> >
> > @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ void handle_IPI(int ipinr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> >         }
> >
> >         if ((unsigned)ipinr < NR_IPI)
> > -               trace_ipi_exit(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> > +               trace_ipi_exit_rcuidle(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> >         set_irq_regs(old_regs);
> >  }
> >
> 
> Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> 
> Thanks for fixing this up!

Thanks. I'll throw it into the patch tracker. I'll send the same
patch for arm64 because I assume it's also broken there.

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