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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpu_pm: replace raw_notifier to atomic_notifier
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On Friday, July 28, 2017 03:09:25 PM Alex Shi wrote:
> This patch replace a rwlock and raw notifier by atomic notifier which
> protected by spin_lock and rcu.
>
> The first to reason to have this replace is due to a 'scheduling while
> atomic' bug of RT kernel on arm/arm64 platform. On arm/arm64, rwlock
> cpu_pm_notifier_lock in cpu_pm cause a potential schedule after irq
> disable in idle call chain:
>
> cpu_startup_entry
> cpu_idle_loop
> local_irq_disable()
> cpuidle_idle_call
> call_cpuidle
> cpuidle_enter
> cpuidle_enter_state
> ->enter :arm_enter_idle_state
> cpu_pm_enter/exit
> CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER
> read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock); <-- sleep in idle
> __rt_spin_lock();
> schedule();
>
> The kernel panic is here:
> [ 4.609601] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0x00000002
> [ 4.609608] [<ffff0000086fae70>] arm_enter_idle_state+0x18/0x70
> [ 4.609614] Modules linked in:
> [ 4.609615] [<ffff0000086f9298>] cpuidle_enter_state+0xf0/0x218
> [ 4.609620] [<ffff0000086f93f8>] cpuidle_enter+0x18/0x20
> [ 4.609626] Preemption disabled at:
> [ 4.609627] [<ffff0000080fa234>] call_cpuidle+0x24/0x40
> [ 4.609635] [<ffff000008882fa4>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x28
> [ 4.609639] [<ffff0000080fa49c>] cpu_startup_entry+0x154/0x1f8
> [ 4.609645] [<ffff00000808e004>] secondary_start_kernel+0x15c/0x1a0
>
> Daniel Lezcano said this notification is needed on arm/arm64 platforms.
> Sebastian suggested using atomic_notifier instead of rwlock, which is not
> only removing the sleeping in idle, but also getting better latency
> improvement.
>
> Tony Lindgren found a miss use that rcu_read_lock used after rcu_idle_enter
> Paul E. McKenney suggested trying RCU_NONIDLE.
>
> Thanks everyone! :)
>
> This patch passed Fengguang's 0day testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Applied, thanks!

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