Re: [PATCH 0/8] rcu: Ensure rcu read site is deadlock-immunity

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Wed Aug 07 2013 - 21:44:22 EST


On 08/08/2013 08:36 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:38:27AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 06:24:56PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>>> Although all articles declare that rcu read site is deadlock-immunity.
>>> It is not true for rcu-preempt, it will be deadlock if rcu read site
>>> overlaps with scheduler lock.
>>
>> The real rule is that if the scheduler does its outermost rcu_read_unlock()
>> with one of those locks held, it has to have avoided enabling preemption
>> through the entire RCU read-side critical section.
>>
>> That said, avoiding the need for this rule would be a good thing.
>>
>> How did you test this? The rcutorture tests will not exercise this.
>> (Intentionally so, given that it can deadlock!)
>>
>>> ec433f0c, 10f39bb1 and 016a8d5b just partially solve it. But rcu read site
>>> is still not deadlock-immunity. And the problem described in 016a8d5b
>>> is still existed(rcu_read_unlock_special() calls wake_up).
>>>
>>> The problem is fixed in patch5.
>>
>> This is going to require some serious review and testing. One requirement
>> is that RCU priority boosting not persist significantly beyond the
>> re-enabling of interrupts associated with the irq-disabled lock. To do
>> otherwise breaks RCU priority boosting. At first glance, the added
>> set_need_resched() might handle this, but that is part of the review
>> and testing required.
>>
>> Steven, would you and Carsten be willing to try this and see if it
>> helps with the issues you are seeing in -rt? (My guess is "no", since
>> a deadlock would block forever rather than waking up after a couple
>> thousand seconds, but worth a try.)
>
> No joy from either Steven or Carsten on the -rt hangs.
>
> I pushed this to -rcu and ran tests. I hit this in one of the
> configurations:
>
> [ 393.641012] =================================
> [ 393.641012] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> [ 393.641012] 3.11.0-rc1+ #1 Not tainted
> [ 393.641012] ---------------------------------
> [ 393.641012] inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-HARDIRQ-W} usage.
> [ 393.641012] rcu_torture_rea/697 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
> [ 393.641012] (&lock->wait_lock){?.+...}, at: [<ffffffff818860f3>] rt_mutex_unlock+0x53/0x100
> [ 393.641012] {HARDIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810aecb1>] __lock_acquire+0x651/0x1d40
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810b0a65>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x210
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81886d26>] _raw_spin_lock+0x36/0x50
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81886329>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0x39/0x170
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff818864ca>] rt_mutex_lock+0x2a/0x30
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ebc03>] rcu_boost_kthread+0x173/0x800
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810759d6>] kthread+0xd6/0xe0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8188f52c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [ 393.641012] irq event stamp: 96581116
> [ 393.641012] hardirqs last enabled at (96581115): [<ffffffff81887ba0>] restore_args+0x0/0x30
> [ 393.641012] hardirqs last disabled at (96581116): [<ffffffff8189022a>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x80
> [ 393.641012] softirqs last enabled at (96576304): [<ffffffff81051844>] __do_softirq+0x174/0x470
> [ 393.641012] softirqs last disabled at (96576275): [<ffffffff81051ca6>] irq_exit+0x96/0xc0
> [ 393.641012]
> [ 393.641012] other info that might help us debug this:
> [ 393.641012] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> [ 393.641012]
> [ 393.641012] CPU0
> [ 393.641012] ----
> [ 393.641012] lock(&lock->wait_lock);
> [ 393.641012] <Interrupt>
> [ 393.641012] lock(&lock->wait_lock);

Patch2 causes it!
When I found all lock which can (chained) nested in rcu_read_unlock_special(),
I didn't notice rtmutex's lock->wait_lock is not nested in irq-disabled.

Two ways to fix it:
1) change rtmutex's lock->wait_lock, make it alwasys irq-disabled.
2) revert my patch2

> [ 393.641012]
> [ 393.641012] *** DEADLOCK ***
> [ 393.641012]
> [ 393.641012] no locks held by rcu_torture_rea/697.
> [ 393.641012]
> [ 393.641012] stack backtrace:
> [ 393.641012] CPU: 3 PID: 697 Comm: rcu_torture_rea Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #1
> [ 393.641012] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
> [ 393.641012] ffffffff8586fea0 ffff88001fcc3a78 ffffffff8187b4cb ffffffff8104a261
> [ 393.641012] ffff88001e1a20c0 ffff88001fcc3ad8 ffffffff818773e4 0000000000000000
> [ 393.641012] ffff880000000000 ffff880000000001 ffffffff81010a0a 0000000000000001
> [ 393.641012] Call Trace:
> [ 393.641012] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8187b4cb>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x84
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8104a261>] ? console_unlock+0x291/0x410
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff818773e4>] print_usage_bug+0x1f5/0x206
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81010a0a>] ? save_stack_trace+0x2a/0x50
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ae603>] mark_lock+0x283/0x2e0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ada10>] ? print_irq_inversion_bug.part.40+0x1f0/0x1f0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810aef66>] __lock_acquire+0x906/0x1d40
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ae94b>] ? __lock_acquire+0x2eb/0x1d40
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ae94b>] ? __lock_acquire+0x2eb/0x1d40
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810b0a65>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x210
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff818860f3>] ? rt_mutex_unlock+0x53/0x100
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81886d26>] _raw_spin_lock+0x36/0x50
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff818860f3>] ? rt_mutex_unlock+0x53/0x100
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff818860f3>] rt_mutex_unlock+0x53/0x100
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ee3ca>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x17a/0x2a0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810ee803>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x313/0x950
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8107a6bd>] ? hrtimer_run_queues+0x1d/0x180
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810abb9d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8105bae3>] update_process_times+0x43/0x80
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810a9801>] tick_sched_handle.isra.10+0x31/0x40
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810a98f7>] tick_sched_timer+0x47/0x70
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8107941c>] __run_hrtimer+0x7c/0x490
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810a260d>] ? ktime_get_update_offsets+0x4d/0xe0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810a98b0>] ? tick_nohz_handler+0xa0/0xa0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8107a017>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x107/0x260
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81030173>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x60
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8103059e>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3e/0x60
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8189022f>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80
> [ 393.641012] <EOI> [<ffffffff810ee250>] ? rcu_scheduler_starting+0x60/0x60
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81072101>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x91/0xa0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810e80e3>] rcu_torture_read_unlock+0x33/0x70
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810e8f54>] rcu_torture_reader+0xe4/0x450
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810e92c0>] ? rcu_torture_reader+0x450/0x450
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810e8e70>] ? rcutorture_trace_dump+0x30/0x30
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff810759d6>] kthread+0xd6/0xe0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff818874bb>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x60
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81075900>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x130/0x130
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff8188f52c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [ 393.641012] [<ffffffff81075900>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x130/0x130
>
> I don't see this without your patches.
>
> .config attached. The other configurations completed without errors.
> Short tests, 30 minutes per configuration.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanx, Paul

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