[PATCH v2] cpu_pm: Make notifier chain use a raw spinlock

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Wed Aug 11 2021 - 09:14:35 EST


Booting a recent PREEMPT_RT kernel (v5.14-rc5-rt8 with the previous version
of this fix reverted) on my arm4 Juno leads to the idle task blocking on a
sleeping spinlock down some notifier path:

[ 5.163034] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35
[ 5.163042] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
[ 5.163049] 1 lock held by swapper/1/0:
[ 5.163053] #0: ffff8000120950e8 (cpu_pm_notifier_chain.lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: atomic_notifier_call_chain_robust (kernel/notifier.c:186)
[ 5.163133] Preemption disabled at:
[ 5.163136] rt_mutex_slowunlock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1242)
[ 5.163148] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc5-rt8-00001-ga7cd9160688d #202
[ 5.163158] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r0) (DT)
[ 5.163162] Call trace:
[ 5.163165] dump_backtrace (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:161)
[ 5.163177] show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:217)
[ 5.163187] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:106)
[ 5.163195] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:113)
[ 5.163202] ___might_sleep (kernel/sched/core.c:9286)
[ 5.163210] rt_spin_lock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1668 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:30 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:36 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:44 (discriminator 4))
[ 5.163216] atomic_notifier_call_chain_robust (kernel/notifier.c:186)
[ 5.163225] cpu_pm_notify_robust (kernel/cpu_pm.c:39)
[ 5.163233] cpu_pm_enter (kernel/cpu_pm.c:94)
[ 5.163239] psci_enter_idle_state (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c:53 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c:154)
[ 5.163250] cpuidle_enter_state (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:238)
[ 5.163258] cpuidle_enter (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:353)
[ 5.163266] call_cpuidle (kernel/sched/idle.c:159)
[ 5.163272] do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:243 kernel/sched/idle.c:306)
[ 5.163277] cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:402 (discriminator 1))
[ 5.163285] secondary_start_kernel (arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c:266)
[ 5.163294] __secondary_switched (arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:661)

Making *all* atomic_notifiers use a raw_spinlock is too big of a hammer, as
only notifications issued by the idle task are problematic.

Special-case cpu_pm_notifier_chain by kludging a raw_notifier and
raw_spinlock together, matching the atomic_notifier behavior with a
raw_spinlock.

Fixes: 70d932985757 ("notifier: Fix broken error handling pattern")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2:
Dropped the treewide change of atomic_notifier and special-cased
cpu_pm_notifier_chain. This is done in cpu_pm itself rather than as a new
notifier interface since this is caused by the idle task being "special",
and AFAIA we don't want to encourage more widespread use.
---
kernel/cpu_pm.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu_pm.c b/kernel/cpu_pm.c
index f7e1d0eccdbc..707b8ace9fc7 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu_pm.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu_pm.c
@@ -13,19 +13,31 @@
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/syscore_ops.h>

-static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(cpu_pm_notifier_chain);
+/*
+ * atomic_notifiers use a regular spinlock, but notifications for this chain
+ * will be issued by the idle task which cannot block.
+ */
+static struct {
+ struct raw_notifier_head chain;
+ raw_spinlock_t lock;
+} cpu_pm_notifier = {
+ .chain = RAW_NOTIFIER_INIT(cpu_pm_notifier.chain),
+ .lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(cpu_pm_notifier.lock),
+};

static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_event event)
{
int ret;

/*
- * atomic_notifier_call_chain has a RCU read critical section, which
- * could be disfunctional in cpu idle. Copy RCU_NONIDLE code to let
- * RCU know this.
+ * This introduces a RCU read critical section, which could be
+ * disfunctional in cpu idle. Copy RCU_NONIDLE code to let RCU know
+ * this.
*/
rcu_irq_enter_irqson();
- ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, event, NULL);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ret = raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, event, NULL);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
rcu_irq_exit_irqson();

return notifier_to_errno(ret);
@@ -33,10 +45,13 @@ static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_event event)

static int cpu_pm_notify_robust(enum cpu_pm_event event_up, enum cpu_pm_event event_down)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
int ret;

rcu_irq_enter_irqson();
- ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain_robust(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, event_up, event_down, NULL);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags);
+ ret = raw_notifier_call_chain_robust(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, event_up, event_down, NULL);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags);
rcu_irq_exit_irqson();

return notifier_to_errno(ret);
@@ -49,12 +64,17 @@ static int cpu_pm_notify_robust(enum cpu_pm_event event_up, enum cpu_pm_event ev
* Add a driver to a list of drivers that are notified about
* CPU and CPU cluster low power entry and exit.
*
- * This function may sleep, and has the same return conditions as
- * raw_notifier_chain_register.
+ * This function has the same return conditions as raw_notifier_chain_register.
*/
int cpu_pm_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
- return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb);
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int ret;
+
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags);
+ ret = raw_notifier_chain_register(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, nb);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags);
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_register_notifier);

@@ -64,12 +84,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_register_notifier);
*
* Remove a driver from the CPU PM notifier list.
*
- * This function may sleep, and has the same return conditions as
- * raw_notifier_chain_unregister.
+ * This function has the same return conditions as raw_notifier_chain_unregister.
*/
int cpu_pm_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
- return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb);
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int ret;
+
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags);
+ ret = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, nb);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags);
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_unregister_notifier);

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