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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/core: avoid spurious spinlock recursion splats
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 03:51:18PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> However, this happens *after* prev->on_cpu is cleared, which allows prev
> to be scheduled on another CPU. If prev then attempts to acquire the
> same rq lock, before the updated rq->lock.owner is made visible, it will
> see itself as the owner.

Cute.

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index b19552a212de..4f0d2e3701c3 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -1342,6 +1342,10 @@ static inline void prepare_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next)
>
> static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
> {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> + /* this is a valid case when another task releases the spinlock */
> + rq->lock.owner = current;
> +#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> /*
> * After ->on_cpu is cleared, the task can be moved to a different CPU.
> @@ -1355,10 +1359,6 @@ static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
> */
> smp_store_release(&prev->on_cpu, 0);
> #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> - /* this is a valid case when another task releases the spinlock */
> - rq->lock.owner = current;
> -#endif
> /*
> * If we are tracking spinlock dependencies then we have to
> * fix up the runqueue lock - which gets 'carried over' from

Right, so patch:

31cb1bc0dc94 ("sched/core: Rework and clarify prepare_lock_switch()")

munched all that code and the above no longer fits. Does the below
change also work for you? (tip/master)

---
kernel/sched/core.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ee420d78e674..abfd10692022 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2600,19 +2600,31 @@ static inline void finish_task(struct task_struct *prev)
#endif
}

-static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq)
+static inline void
+prepare_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next, struct rq_flags *rf)
{
+ /*
+ * Since the runqueue lock will be released by the next
+ * task (which is an invalid locking op but in the case
+ * of the scheduler it's an obvious special-case), so we
+ * do an early lockdep release here:
+ */
+ rq_unpin_lock(rq, rf);
+ spin_release(&rq->lock.dep_map, 1, _THIS_IP_);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
/* this is a valid case when another task releases the spinlock */
- rq->lock.owner = current;
+ rq->lock.owner = next;
#endif
+}
+
+static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq)
+{
/*
* If we are tracking spinlock dependencies then we have to
* fix up the runqueue lock - which gets 'carried over' from
* prev into current:
*/
spin_acquire(&rq->lock.dep_map, 0, 0, _THIS_IP_);
-
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock);
}

@@ -2843,14 +2855,7 @@ context_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev,

rq->clock_update_flags &= ~(RQCF_ACT_SKIP|RQCF_REQ_SKIP);

- /*
- * Since the runqueue lock will be released by the next
- * task (which is an invalid locking op but in the case
- * of the scheduler it's an obvious special-case), so we
- * do an early lockdep release here:
- */
- rq_unpin_lock(rq, rf);
- spin_release(&rq->lock.dep_map, 1, _THIS_IP_);
+ prepare_lock_switch(rq, next, rf);

/* Here we just switch the register state and the stack. */
switch_to(prev, next, prev);
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