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Message-ID: <20180709202214.h2t5t3ndx6xqtrtg@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 22:22:15 +0200
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: cgroup trace events acquire sleeping locks
On 2018-07-09 15:01:54 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > which is the trace_cgroup_rmdir() trace event in cgroup_rmdir(). The
> > trace event invokes cgroup_path() which acquires a spin_lock_t and this
> > is invoked within a preempt_disable()ed section.
>
> Correct. And I wish no trace event took spin locks.
is there an easy way to detect this? I mean instead hitting the trace
event with debug enabled and doing a review of each of them.
> > It says "Preemption disabled at" migrate_enable() but this is not true.
> > A printk() just before the lock reports preempt_count() of two and
> > sometimes one. I *think*
> > - one is from rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() in __DO_TRACE()
> > - the second is from preempt_disable_notrace() in ring_buffer_lock_reserve()
> >
> > I would prefer not to turn kernfs_rename_lock into raw_spin_lock_t. We
> > had a similar problem with a i915 trace event which eventually vanished
> > (and before I just disabled it).
> >
> > So how likely are chances that we can use rcu_read_lock() in __DO_TRACE()?
>
> Not very.
Is there a reason for this? I don't think this is documented. I changed
it to the "normal" RCU read section and it appeared to work :)
> > And how likely are chances that the preempt_disable() in
> > ring_buffer_lock_reserve() could be avoided while the trace event is
> > invoked?
>
> Even less likely. The design of the ring buffer is based on not being
> able to be preempted.
I was expecting this.
> > I guess nothing of this is easy peasy. Any suggestions?
> >
>
> One solution, albeit not so pretty, is to move the grabbing of the
> path, outside the trace event. But this should work.
okay, wasn't aware of the trace_cgroup_##type##_enabled() magic. Yes,
this should work. Do you mind posting this upstream?
> -- Steve
Sebastian
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