linux-kernel - Re: WARN_ON_ONCE() hit at kernel/events/core.c:330

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Date:   Thu, 4 Apr 2019 14:02:14 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, acme@...hat.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: WARN_ON_ONCE() hit at kernel/events/core.c:330

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 01:09:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That is not entirely the scenario I talked about, but *groan*.
> 
> So what I meant was:
> 
> 	CPU-0							CPU-n
> 
> 	__schedule()
> 	  local_irq_disable()
> 
> 	  ...
> 	    deactivate_task(prev);
> 
> 								try_to_wake_up(@p)
> 								  ...
> 								  smp_cond_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu, !VAL);
> 
> 	  <PMI>
> 	    ..
> 	    perf_event_disable_inatomic()
> 	      event->pending_disable = 1;
> 	      irq_work_queue() /* self-IPI */
> 	  </PMI>
> 
> 	  context_switch()
> 	    prepare_task_switch()
> 	      perf_event_task_sched_out()
> 	        // the above chain that clears pending_disable
> 
> 	    finish_task_switch()
> 	      finish_task()
> 	        smp_store_release(prev->on_cpu, 0);
> 								  /* finally.... */
> 								// take woken
> 								// context_switch to @p
> 	      finish_lock_switch()
> 	        raw_spin_unlock_irq()
> 		/* w00t, IRQs enabled, self-IPI time */
> 	        <self-IPI>
> 		  perf_pending_event()
> 		    // event->pending_disable == 0
> 		</self-IPI>
> 
> 
> What you're suggesting, is that the time between:
> 
>   smp_store_release(prev->on_cpu, 0);
> 
> and
> 
>   <self-IPI>
> 
> on CPU-0 is sufficient for CPU-n to context switch to the task, enable
> the event there, trigger a PMI that calls perf_event_disable_inatomic()
> _again_ (this would mean irq_work_queue() failing, which we don't check)
> (and schedule out again, although that's not required).
> 
> This being virt that might actually be possible if (v)CPU-0 takes a nap
> I suppose.
> 
> Let me think about this a little more...

Arghh... s390 doesn't implement arch_irq_work_raise(), which makes it
far far worse.

I have a hack that might've cured it, were it not for that. Let me think
more still..