linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: Have osnoise_main() add a quiescent state for task rcu

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Message-ID: <20210628114953.6dc06a91@oasis.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:49:53 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Have osnoise_main() add a quiescent state for task
 rcu

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

ftracetest triggered:

 INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
 00000000b92b832d: .. nvcsw: 1/1 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/7
 task:osnoise/7       state:R  running task     stack:    0 pid: 2133 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
 Call Trace:
  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2b/0xe0
  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  ? trace_clock_local+0xc/0x20
  ? osnoise_main+0x10e/0x450
  ? trace_softirq_entry_callback+0x50/0x50
  ? kthread+0x153/0x170
  ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
  ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

While running osnoise tracer with other tracers that rely on
synchronize_rcu_tasks(), where that just hung.

The reason is that osnoise_main() never schedules out if the interval
is less than 1, and this will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks() to never
return.

Fixes: bce29ac9ce0bb ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index 38aa5e208ffd..556d530af805 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -1216,8 +1216,11 @@ static int osnoise_main(void *data)
 		 * differently from hwlat_detector, the osnoise tracer can run
 		 * without a pause because preemption is on.
 		 */
-		if (interval < 1)
+		if (interval < 1) {
+			/* Let synchronize_rcu_tasks() make progress */
+			cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		if (msleep_interruptible(interval))
 			break;
-- 
2.29.2