Re: timekeeping: exiting task with held timekeeping locks

[Sasha Levin]

On 06/11/2014 07:30 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
>> > kernel I've stumbled on the following spew:
>> >
>> > [ 3460.136058] =====================================
>> > [ 3460.138017] [ BUG: trinity-c70/27193 still has locks held! ]
>> > [ 3460.141491] 3.15.0-next-20140611-sasha-00022-g9466d2f-dirty #638 Not tainted
>> > [ 3460.143219] -------------------------------------
>> > [ 3460.167979] 2 locks held by trinity-c70/27193:
>> > [ 3460.169172] #0: (tick_broadcast_lock){-.-.-.}, at: tick_handle_periodic_broadcast (kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c:301)
>> > [ 3460.468004] #1: (timekeeper_lock){-.-.-.}, at: update_wall_time (kernel/time/timekeeping.c:1371)
>> > [ 3460.920025]
>> > [ 3460.920025] stack backtrace:
>> > [ 3460.928146] CPU: 0 PID: 27193 Comm: trinity-c70 Not tainted 3.15.0-next-20140611-sasha-00022-g9466d2f-dirty #638
>> > [ 3460.928648] can: request_module (can-proto-3) failed.
>> > [ 3460.943111]  ffff8800576ef4c8 ffff8800576efc88 ffffffffa551093c 0000000000000001
>> > [ 3460.962511]  ffff880056f9b000 ffff8800576efca8 ffffffffa21c6a43 ffff880056f9bbe8
>> > [ 3461.007184]  ffff880056f9bbe8 ffff8800576efd48
>> > [ 3461.017661] can: request_module (can-proto-0) failed.
>> > [ 3461.045536]  ffffffffa21636ea ffff8800576efcc8
>> > [ 3461.170992] Call Trace:
>> > [ 3461.174122] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
>> > [ 3461.558864] debug_check_no_locks_held (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4107 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4113)
>> > [ 3461.577066] do_exit (kernel/exit.c:796)
>> > [ 3461.592523] ? debug_smp_processor_id (lib/smp_processor_id.c:57)
>> > [ 3461.629067] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:819 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:168 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:199)
>> > [ 3461.671525] do_group_exit (kernel/exit.c:884)
>> > [ 3461.717091] get_signal_to_deliver (kernel/signal.c:2347)
>> > [ 3461.724142] ? vtime_account_user (kernel/sched/cputime.c:687)
>> > [ 3461.800505] do_signal (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:698)
>> > [ 3461.808792] ? vtime_account_user (kernel/sched/cputime.c:687)
>> > [ 3461.812780] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2602)
>> > [ 3461.824601] ? context_tracking_user_exit (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:809 (discriminator 2) kernel/context_tracking.c:182 (discriminator 2))
>> > [ 3461.827619] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check (lib/smp_processor_id.c:63)
>> > [ 3461.831486] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2557 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2599)
>> > [ 3461.841516] do_notify_resume (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:751)
>> > [ 3461.847056] retint_signal (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:921)
> 
> Huh.. Got me.. I don't see how the task can get out of
> update_wall_time() w/o releasing the timekeeper_lock. Same with the
> tick_broadcast_lock.  Does this happen all the time or was this a
> one-off?

One-off, only seen once.


Thanks,
Sasha
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