Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 27/39] sched/idle: Fix arch_cpu_idle() vs tracing

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Dec 13 2020 - 09:11:56 EST


On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 06:10:15PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 03:54:42PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:28:21AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 58c644ba512cfbc2e39b758dd979edd1d6d00e27 ]
>
> We call arch_cpu_idle() with RCU disabled, but then use
> local_irq_{en,dis}able(), which invokes tracing, which relies on RCU.
>
> Switch all arch_cpu_idle() implementations to use
> raw_local_irq_{en,dis}able() and carefully manage the
> lockdep,rcu,tracing state like we do in entry.
>
> (XXX: we really should change arch_cpu_idle() to not return with
> interrupts enabled)
>
> Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120114925.594122626@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch broke s390 irq state tracing. A patch to fix this is
scheduled to be merged upstream today (hopefully).
Therefore I think this patch should not yet go into 5.9 stable.

Agreed.

I'll also grab b1cae1f84a0f ("s390: fix irq state tracing"). Thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha