linux-kernel - Re: Perf hotplug lockup in v4.9-rc8

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Message-ID: <20161207175347.GB13840@leverpostej>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 17:53:47 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        jeremy.linton@....com
Subject: Re: Perf hotplug lockup in v4.9-rc8

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:52:17PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Jeremy noticed a kernel lockup on arm64 when the perf tool was used in
> parallel with hotplug, which I've reproduced on arm64 and x86(-64) with
> v4.9-rc8. In both cases I'm using defconfig; I've tried enabling lockdep
> but it was silent for arm64 and x86.

It looks like we're trying to install a task-bound event into a context
where task_cpu(ctx->task) is dead, and thus the cpu_function_call() in
perf_install_in_context() fails. We retry repeatedly.

On !PREEMPT (as with x86 defconfig), we manage to prevent the hotplug
machinery from making progress, and this turns into a livelock.

On PREEMPT (as with arm64 defconfig), I'm somewhat lost.

Thanks,
Mark.