[PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/12] rcu: Improve diagnostics for blocked critical sections in irq

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 12:06:18 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If an RCU read-side critical section occurs within an interrupt handler
or a softirq handler, it cannot have been preempted. Therefore, there is
a check in rcu_read_unlock_special() checking for this error. However,
when this check triggers, it lacks diagnostic information. This commit
therefore moves rcu_read_unlock()'s lockdep annotation to follow the
call to __rcu_read_unlock() and changes rcu_read_unlock_special()'s
WARN_ON_ONCE() to an lockdep_rcu_suspicious() in order to locate where
the offending RCU read-side critical section began. In addition, the
value of the ->rcu_read_unlock_special field is printed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/lockdep.h | 7 ++++++-
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 8 +++++++-
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 74ab23176e9b..066ba4157541 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -531,8 +531,13 @@ do { \
# define might_lock_read(lock) do { } while (0)
#endif

-#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
void lockdep_rcu_suspicious(const char *file, const int line, const char *s);
+#else
+static inline void
+lockdep_rcu_suspicious(const char *file, const int line, const char *s)
+{
+}
#endif

#endif /* __LINUX_LOCKDEP_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 3e6afed51051..70b896e16f19 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -942,9 +942,9 @@ static inline void rcu_read_unlock(void)
{
rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(),
"rcu_read_unlock() used illegally while idle");
- rcu_lock_release(&rcu_lock_map);
__release(RCU);
__rcu_read_unlock();
+ rcu_lock_release(&rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */
}

/**
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 93eeefeacc02..fec7034d41db 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -334,7 +334,13 @@ void rcu_read_unlock_special(struct task_struct *t)
}

/* Hardware IRQ handlers cannot block, complain if they get here. */
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || in_serving_softirq())) {
+ if (in_irq() || in_serving_softirq()) {
+ lockdep_rcu_suspicious(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+ "rcu_read_unlock() from irq or softirq with blocking in critical section!!!\n");
+ pr_alert("->rcu_read_unlock_special: %#x (b: %d, nq: %d)\n",
+ t->rcu_read_unlock_special.s,
+ t->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.blocked,
+ t->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs);
local_irq_restore(flags);
return;
}
--
1.8.1.5

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