Re: [PATCH] ARM64: smp: Silence suspicious RCU usage with ipi tracepoints

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Jun 24 2015 - 16:20:56 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:14:18PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> John Stultz reported an RCU splat on ARM with ipi trace events
> enabled. It looks like the same problem exists on ARM64.
>
> At this point in the IPI handling path we haven't called
> irq_enter() yet, so RCU doesn't know that we're about to exit
> idle and properly warns that we're using RCU from an idle CPU.
> Use trace_ipi_entry_rcuidle() instead of trace_ipi_entry() so
> that RCU is informed about our exit from idle.
>
> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 45ed695ac10a "ARM64: add IPI tracepoints"
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> I haven't confirmed this, but it looks an awful lot like the same
> problem exists on ARM64.
>
> arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index 4b2121bd7f9c..a1883bfdd9d6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ void handle_IPI(int ipinr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
>
> if ((unsigned)ipinr < NR_IPI) {
> - trace_ipi_entry(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> + trace_ipi_entry_rcuidle(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> __inc_irq_stat(cpu, ipi_irqs[ipinr]);
> }
>
> @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ void handle_IPI(int ipinr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> }
>
> if ((unsigned)ipinr < NR_IPI)
> - trace_ipi_exit(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> + trace_ipi_exit_rcuidle(ipi_types[ipinr]);
> set_irq_regs(old_regs);
> }
>
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