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authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-11-05 00:34:44 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-11-05 22:04:26 +0100
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ftrace: Have control op function callback only trace when RCU is watching
Dave Jones reported that trinity would be able to trigger the following back trace: =============================== [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 3.10.0-rc2+ #38 Not tainted ------------------------------- include/linux/rcupdate.h:771 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle! other info that might help us debug this: RCU used illegally from idle CPU! rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state! 1 lock held by trinity-child1/18786: #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8113dd48>] __perf_event_overflow+0x108/0x310 stack backtrace: CPU: 3 PID: 18786 Comm: trinity-child1 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc2+ #38 0000000000000000 ffff88020767bac8 ffffffff816e2f6b ffff88020767baf8 ffffffff810b5897 ffff88021de92520 0000000000000000 ffff88020767bbf8 0000000000000000 ffff88020767bb78 ffffffff8113ded4 ffffffff8113dd48 Call Trace: [<ffffffff816e2f6b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff810b5897>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120 [<ffffffff8113ded4>] __perf_event_overflow+0x294/0x310 [<ffffffff8113dd48>] ? __perf_event_overflow+0x108/0x310 [<ffffffff81309289>] ? __const_udelay+0x29/0x30 [<ffffffff81076054>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x54/0xa0 [<ffffffff816f4000>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f [<ffffffff8113dfa1>] perf_swevent_overflow+0x51/0xe0 [<ffffffff8113e08f>] perf_swevent_event+0x5f/0x90 [<ffffffff8113e1c9>] perf_tp_event+0x109/0x4f0 [<ffffffff8113e36f>] ? perf_tp_event+0x2af/0x4f0 [<ffffffff81074630>] ? __rcu_read_lock+0x20/0x20 [<ffffffff8112d79f>] perf_ftrace_function_call+0xbf/0xd0 [<ffffffff8110e1e1>] ? ftrace_ops_control_func+0x181/0x210 [<ffffffff81074630>] ? __rcu_read_lock+0x20/0x20 [<ffffffff81100cae>] ? rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x5e/0x470 [<ffffffff8110e1e1>] ftrace_ops_control_func+0x181/0x210 [<ffffffff816f4000>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f [<ffffffff8110e229>] ? ftrace_ops_control_func+0x1c9/0x210 [<ffffffff816f4000>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f [<ffffffff81074635>] ? debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x5/0x40 [<ffffffff81074635>] ? debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x5/0x40 [<ffffffff81100cae>] ? rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x5e/0x470 [<ffffffff8110112a>] rcu_eqs_enter+0x6a/0xb0 [<ffffffff81103673>] rcu_user_enter+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff8114541a>] user_enter+0x6a/0xd0 [<ffffffff8100f6d8>] syscall_trace_leave+0x78/0x140 [<ffffffff816f46af>] int_check_syscall_exit_work+0x34/0x3d ------------[ cut here ]------------ Perf uses rcu_read_lock() but as the function tracer can trace functions even when RCU is not currently active, this makes the rcu_read_lock() used by perf ineffective. As perf is currently the only user of the ftrace_ops_control_func() and perf is also the only function callback that actively uses rcu_read_lock(), the quick fix is to prevent the ftrace_ops_control_func() from calling its callbacks if RCU is not active. With Paul's new "rcu_is_watching()" we can tell if RCU is active or not. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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