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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 22:52:13 +0530
From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>
To: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@....de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@...ts.linux.dev, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@...nel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: loading amd-pstate-ut kernel module crashes with PREEMPT_RT
Hello Bert,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 11:23:15AM +0200, Bert Karwatzki wrote:
> When loading the amd-pstate-ut kernel module (which is supposed to test
> the amd-pstate cpufreq driver) the following crash occurs (most of the
> time the loading has to be repeated several times):
Thank you for reporting this. I haven't run amd-pstate with PREEMPT_RT
yet. But for the following issue to occur, we need the schedutil()
governor's sugov_update_single_perf() (which will eventually acquire
the read side of the cpufreq_driver_lock) to race with some call that
acquires the cpufreq_driver_lock on the write-side, thus forcing the
read-side to take the slowpath which can block on PREEMPT_RT .
The amd-pstate-ut has the amd_pstate_ut_check_driver() which will test
switching between one mode to another. These mode-switches involve
unregistering the driver, and that callpath involves write-acquire of
the cpufreq_driver_lock.
So the race should potentially occur when the following code-path
through the amd_pstate_ut_check_driver()
amd_pstate_ut_check_driver()
|-> amd_pstate_set_mode()
|-> amd_pstate_update_status()
|-> cpufreq_unregister_driver()
|->subsys_interface_unregister()
|-> cpufreq_remove_dev()
|-> cpufreq_policy_free(policy-cpu-X)
|-> write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock)
running concurrently with the schedutil governor on another CPU.
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt()
|-> try_to_wake_up()
|-> ttwu_do_activate()
|-> enqueue_task_fair()
|-> enqueue_entity()
|-> update_load_avg()
|->sugov_update_single_freq()
|-> amd_pstate_adjust_perf()
|->cpufreq_cpu_get(on CPU Y)
|-> read_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock)
Here, the read_lock_irqsave() has to take a slow-path in the presence
of the writer, which can sleep on PREEMPT_RT. But this is illegal as
this is invoked from the interrupt context.
Can you please check if you can generate the same lock-up with the
following script without relying on the amd-pstate-ut driver?
-------------x8------------------x8------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
while ((1));
do
echo "disable" > /sys/device/system/cpu/amd_pstate/status;
echo "guided" > /sys/device/system/cpu/amd_pstate/status;
done
-------------x8------------------x8------------------------------
>
> Bert Karwatzki
--
Thanks and Regards
gautham.
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