[PATCH] sched/core: make "Preemption disabled at" message more useful

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sat Jul 23 2016 - 03:59:27 EST


This message is currently really useless since it always prints a value
that comes from the printk() we just did, e.g.:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:388
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 31996, name: trinity-c1
Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff8119db33>] down_trylock+0x13/0x80

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/freezer.h:56
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 31996, name: trinity-c1
Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff811aaa37>] console_unlock+0x2f7/0x930

Here, both down_trylock() and console_unlock() is somewhere in the
printk() path.

We should save the value before calling printk() and use the saved value
instead. That immediately reveals the offending callsite:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:388
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 14971, name: trinity-c2
Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff819bcd46>] rhashtable_walk_start+0x46/0x150

(Bug report: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=146925979821849&w=2)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russel <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 7171cf9..87689a6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3144,9 +3144,18 @@ static inline void preempt_latency_stop(int val) { }
*/
static noinline void __schedule_bug(struct task_struct *prev)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
+ unsigned long preempt_disable_ip;
+#endif
+
if (oops_in_progress)
return;

+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
+ /* Save this before calling printk(), since that will clobber it */
+ preempt_disable_ip = current->preempt_disable_ip;
+#endif
+
printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: scheduling while atomic: %s/%d/0x%08x\n",
prev->comm, prev->pid, preempt_count());

@@ -3157,7 +3166,7 @@ static noinline void __schedule_bug(struct task_struct *prev)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
if (in_atomic_preempt_off()) {
pr_err("Preemption disabled at:");
- print_ip_sym(current->preempt_disable_ip);
+ print_ip_sym(preempt_disable_ip);
pr_cont("\n");
}
#endif
@@ -7541,6 +7550,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__might_sleep);
void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset)
{
static unsigned long prev_jiffy; /* ratelimiting */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
+ unsigned long preempt_disable_ip;
+#endif

rcu_sleep_check(); /* WARN_ON_ONCE() by default, no rate limit reqd. */
if ((preempt_count_equals(preempt_offset) && !irqs_disabled() &&
@@ -7551,6 +7563,11 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset)
return;
prev_jiffy = jiffies;

+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
+ /* Save this before calling printk(), since that will clobber it */
+ preempt_disable_ip = current->preempt_disable_ip;
+#endif
+
printk(KERN_ERR
"BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at %s:%d\n",
file, line);
@@ -7568,7 +7585,7 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
if (!preempt_count_equals(preempt_offset)) {
pr_err("Preemption disabled at:");
- print_ip_sym(current->preempt_disable_ip);
+ print_ip_sym(preempt_disable_ip);
pr_cont("\n");
}
#endif
--
1.9.1