linux-kernel - Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:256

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Message-ID: <18464474-77e9-1a53-265f-b9718d43e8cd@molgen.mpg.de>
Date:   Sun, 13 Feb 2022 18:26:53 +0100
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
 include/linux/sched/mm.h:256

Dear Paul,


Am 13.02.22 um 15:45 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 08:39:13AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:

>> Am 13.02.22 um 00:48 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
>>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:05:50AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>
>> […]
>>
>>>> Running rcutorture on the POWER8 system IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 20.10, it
>>>> found the bug below. I more or less used rcu/dev (0ba8896d2fd7
>>>> (lib/irq_poll: Declare IRQ_POLL softirq vector as ksoftirqd-parking safe))
>>>> [1]. The bug manifested for the four configurations below.
>>>>
>>>> 1.  results-rcutorture-kasan/SRCU-T
>>>> 2.  results-rcutorture-kasan/TINY02
>>>> 3.  results-rcutorture/SRCU-T
>>>> 4.  results-rcutorture/TINY02
>>>
>>> Adding Frederic on CC...
>>>
>>> I am dropping these three for the moment:
>>>
>>> 0ba8896d2fd75 lib/irq_poll: Declare IRQ_POLL softirq vector as ksoftirqd-parking safe
>>> efa8027149a1f tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle
>>> d338d22b9d338 tick/rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_needs_cpu() parameters
>>>
>>> Though it might be that these are victims of circumstance, in other
>>> words, that the original bug that Paul Menzel reported was caused by
>>> something else.
>>
>> Even without these three patches, the issue is reproducible. I tested commit
>> 7a935b7ac61b (tools/nolibc/stdlib: implement abort()).
> 
> Ah, I thought you were saying that the issue was caused by them.
> 
> I will put them back.  And apologies to Frederic for kicking his
> patches out!

Sorry for being unclear.

> Are you able to bisect to see what commit introduced the problem?

I have not checked yet, if it’s a regression. I am going to test it next 
week.

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Kind regards,