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Message-ID: <Y+oY3Xd43nNnkDSB@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:02:53 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] locking/lockdep: add debug_show_all_lock_holders()
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 10:59:50PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Currently, check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() reports details of locks
> held in the system. Also, lockdep_print_held_locks() does not report
> details of locks held by a thread if that thread is in TASK_RUNNING state.
> Several years of experience of debugging without vmcore tells me that
> these limitations have been a barrier for understanding what went wrong
> in syzbot's "INFO: task hung in" reports.
>
> I initially thought that the cause of "INFO: task hung in" reports is
> due to over-stressing. But I understood that over-stressing is unlikely.
> I now consider that there likely is a deadlock/livelock bug where lockdep
> cannot report as a deadlock when "INFO: task hung in" is reported.
>
> A typical case is that thread-1 is waiting for something to happen (e.g.
> wait_event_*()) with a lock held. When thread-2 tries to hold that lock
> using e.g. mutex_lock(), check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() reports that
> thread-2 is hung and thread-1 is holding a lock which thread-2 is trying
> to hold. But currently check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() cannot report
> the exact location of thread-1 which gives us an important hint for
> understanding why thread-1 is holding that lock for so long period.
>
> When check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() reports a thread waiting for a
> lock, it is important to report backtrace of threads which already held
> that lock. Therefore, allow check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() to report
> the exact location of threads which is holding any lock.
>
> debug_show_all_lock_holders() skips current thread if the caller is
> holding no lock, for reporting RCU lock taken inside that function is
> generally useless.
> diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
> index c71889f3f3fc..5fba784258b7 100644
> --- a/kernel/hung_task.c
> +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout)
> unlock:
> rcu_read_unlock();
> if (hung_task_show_lock)
> - debug_show_all_locks();
> + debug_show_all_lock_holders();
>
> if (hung_task_show_all_bt) {
> hung_task_show_all_bt = false;
This being the hung-task detector, which is mostly about sleeping locks.
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> index e3375bc40dad..d9394de09b79 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
> #include <linux/sched/task.h>
> #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
> @@ -6511,6 +6512,33 @@ void debug_show_all_locks(void)
> pr_warn("=============================================\n\n");
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debug_show_all_locks);
> +
> +void debug_show_all_lock_holders(void)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *g, *p;
> +
> + if (unlikely(!debug_locks)) {
> + pr_warn("INFO: lockdep is turned off.\n");
> + return;
> + }
> + pr_warn("\nShowing all threads with locks held in the system:\n");
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + for_each_process_thread(g, p) {
> + if (!p->lockdep_depth)
> + continue;
> + if (p == current && p->lockdep_depth == 1)
> + continue;
> + sched_show_task(p);
And sched_show_task() being an utter piece of crap that will basically
print garbage for anything that's running (it doesn't have much
options).
Should we try and do better? dump_cpu_task() prefers
trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(), which sends an interrupt in order to get
active registers for the CPU.
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