linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage - sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper

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Date:   Wed, 2 Sep 2020 17:58:55 +0200
From:   Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mmc <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...eaurora.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@...rochip.com>,
        madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage - sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and
 OF driver helper

On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 14:14, <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 09:03:37AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > Lots of cpuidle drivers are using CPU_PM notifiers (grep for
> > cpu_pm_enter and you will see) from their idlestates ->enter()
> > callbacks. And for those we are already calling
> > rcu_irq_enter_irqson|off() in cpu_pm_notify() when firing them.
>
> Yeah, that particular trainwreck is on my todo list already ... then
> again, that list is forever overflowing.
>
> I'm thinking cpu_pm_unregister_notifier() is not a common thing? The few
> I looked at seem to suggest 'never' is a good approximation.

The trend is that drivers are turning into regular modules that may
also need to manage "->remove()", which may mean unregistering the
notifier. Of course, I don't know for sure whether that becomes a
problem, but it seems quite limiting.

>
> It would be fairly trivial to replace the atomic_notifier usage with a
> raw_notifier a lock and either stop-machine or IPIs. Better still would
> be if we can get rid of it entirely, but I can't tell in a hurry if that
> is possible.

Okay, let's see.

In any case, I was thinking that the patch with CPU idle flag, for
letting CPU idle drivers deal with RCU, that you proposed, seems like
a good first step.

At least it should enable us to solve the problem for runtime PM in
psci_enter_domain_idle_state(). Let me update the patch and send it
out, then we can continue the discussion over there.

Kind regards
Uffe