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SubjectRe: RCU idle CPU detection is broken in linux-next
On 09/20/2012 09:33 AM, Michael Wang wrote:
> On 09/20/2012 01:06 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:35:36PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> On 09/19/2012 05:39 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:56:48PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While fuzzing using trinity inside a KVM tools guest, I've managed to trigger
>>>>>> "RCU used illegally from idle CPU!" warnings several times.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are a bunch of traces which seem to pop exactly at the same time and from
>>>>>> different places around the kernel. Here are several of them:
>>>> Hello, Sasha,
>>>>
>>>> OK, interesting. Could you please try reproducing with the diagnostic
>>>> patch shown below?
>>>
>>> Sure - here are the results (btw, it reproduces very easily):
>>>
>>> [ 13.525119] ================================================
>>> [ 13.527165] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
>>> [ 13.528752] 3.6.0-rc6-next-20120918-sasha-00002-g190c311-dirty #362 Tainted: GW
>>> [ 13.531314] ------------------------------------------------
>>> [ 13.532918] init/1 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
>>> [ 13.534574] 1 lock held by init/1:
>>> [ 13.535533] #0: (rcu_idle){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff811c36d0>]
>>> rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x1a0/0x9a0
>>>
>>> I'm basically seeing lots of the above, so I can't even get to the point where I
>>> get the previous lockdep warnings.
>>
>> OK, that diagnostic patch was unhelpful. Back to the drawing board...
>
> May be we could first make sure the cpu_idle() behave properly?
>
> Since according to the log, rcu think cpu is idle while current pid
> is not 0, that could happen if things broken in cpu_idle() which
> is very dependent on platform.
>
> So check it when idle thread was switched out may could be the first
> step? some thing like below.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Wang
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle_task.c b/kernel/sched/idle_task.c
> index b6baf37..f8c7354 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/idle_task.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/idle_task.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ dequeue_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
>
> static void put_prev_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
> {
> + WARN_ON(rcu_is_cpu_idle());
> }
>
> static void task_tick_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr, int queued)

Looks like you're on to something, with the small patch above applied:

[ 23.514223] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 23.515496] WARNING: at kernel/sched/idle_task.c:46
put_prev_task_idle+0x1e/0x30()
[ 23.517498] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W
3.6.0-rc6-next-20120919-sasha-00001-gb54aafe-dirty #366
[ 23.520393] Call Trace:
[ 23.521882] [<ffffffff8115167e>] ? put_prev_task_idle+0x1e/0x30
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff81106736>] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xb0
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff81106825>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff8115167e>] put_prev_task_idle+0x1e/0x30
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff839ea61e>] __schedule+0x25e/0x8f0
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff81175ebd>] ? tick_nohz_idle_exit+0x18d/0x1c0
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff839ead05>] schedule+0x55/0x60
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff81078540>] cpu_idle+0x90/0x160
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff8383043c>] rest_init+0x130/0x144
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff8383030c>] ? csum_partial_copy_generic+0x16c/0x16c
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff858acc18>] start_kernel+0x38d/0x39a
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff858ac5fe>] ? repair_env_string+0x5e/0x5e
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff858ac326>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x101/0x105
[ 23.524220] [<ffffffff858ac472>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x148/0x157
[ 23.524220] ---[ end trace 2c3061ab727afec2 ]---



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