Re: [Linux 2.6.29-rc2] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jan 26 2009 - 15:49:20 EST


On Monday 26 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 26 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Monday 26 January 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > During suspend to ram:
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000]
> > > > > > code: suspend_to_ram./2958
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] caller is retrigger_next_event+0x13/0xb0
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] Pid: 2958, comm: suspend_to_ram. Not tainted 2.6.29-rc2 #1
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] Call Trace:
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c025b41f>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xbf/0xd0
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c01473b3>] retrigger_next_event+0x13/0xb0
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c01489b7>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x17/0x20
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c014b938>] timekeeping_resume+0xe8/0x110
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c02cc651>] __sysdev_resume+0x11/0x50
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c02cc6d7>] sysdev_resume+0x47/0x80
> > > > > > [ 131.287012] [<c02d2478>] device_power_up+0x8/0x10
> > > > >
> > > > > Very scary.
> > > > >
> > > > > device_power_up() calls sysdev_resume _before_ it enables interrupts so it
> > > > > sounds like something else has - very incorrectly - enabled interrupts too
> > > > > early in your resume sequence.
> > > > >
> > > > > The patch that Andrew sent out and that apparently fixed things for you
> > > > > should absolutely not have made any difference. This is suspend_enter():
> > > > >
> > > > > arch_suspend_disable_irqs();
> > > > > BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> > > > >
> > > > > if ((error = device_power_down(PMSG_SUSPEND))) {
> > > > > printk(KERN_ERR "PM: Some devices failed to power down\n");
> > > > > goto Done;
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > if (!suspend_test(TEST_CORE))
> > > > > error = suspend_ops->enter(state);
> > > > >
> > > > > device_power_up(PMSG_RESUME);
> > > > > Done:
> > > > > arch_suspend_enable_irqs();
> > > > >
> > > > > and notice how the whole thing is surrounded by that
> > > > > arch_suspend_disable/enable_irqs().
> > > > >
> > > > > So it looks like some sysdev driver (device_power_up does the sysdev
> > > > > drivers first, so it can't be the regular low-level PCI drivers) is
> > > > > enabling interrupts in its resume function. Scary and very wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > It could easily be ACPI, of course. There was some other case where ACPI
> > > > > did that, iirc.
> > > >
> > > > There is a known bug in the USB controllers' suspend that enables interrupts
> > > > from within ->suspend_late(). It should be fixed by the next USB merge
> > > > AFAICS.
> > >
> > > the patch from Andrew looks wrong, as it hides the only place in the
> > > kernel that was able to report the resume bug. Nevertheless related to
> > > that bug we've got a new debug check queued up in timers/urgent:
> > >
> > > void hres_timers_resume(void)
> > > {
> > > - /* Retrigger the CPU local events: */
> > > + WARN_ONCE(!irqs_disabled(),
> > > + KERN_INFO "hres_timers_resume() called with IRQs enabled!");
> > > +
> > > retrigger_next_event(NULL);
> > > }
> > >
> > > as the buggy 'irqs are enabled' condition was not detected reliably. (it
> > > was only detected with certain lockdep options turned on - and even then
> > > it did not seem to be 100% triggerable)
> >
> > Yeah.
> >
> > > i sent it to Linus earlier today.
> >
> > OK, thanks.
> >
> > I'll write a debug patch covering that more generally when I recover from the
> > flu a bit.
> >
> > Rafael
>
> note, we could reuse the ftrace/irqtrace callbacks as well to create an:
> "enforce IRQs off and debug violations of that" facility.

Well, do we have to? ;-)

> It would work like this, you could mark IRQs as disabled 'permanently':
>
> force_irqs_off_start();
> ...
> force_irqs_off_end();
>
> you could mark an arbitrarily complex code sequence that way, and ftrace
> would emit a WARN_ONCE() if irqs are enable anytime during that sequence -
> by using the irq-tracking facilities we have for the irqsoff tracer (and
> which we also have for lockdep).
>
> Would that be useful?

Not sure, I only know a little about ftrace, I really can't judge.

Anyway, I think that putting the checks directly into the code path in question
would be more reliable and would still work without ftrace.

Thanks,
Rafael
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